Thoracoscopy: beyond the key hole

Acute Management of Massive Spontaneous Hemopneumothorax: Beyond Thoracotomy with Thoracoscopy

Received: April 27, 2009 Accepted for publication: September 11, 2009 From the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tung’s Taichung MetroHarbor Wuci Branch Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan Address reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Chao-Ming Shih Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tung’s Taichung MetroHarbor Wuci Branch Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan 699 Se...

Beyond Pki: the Biocyptographic Key Infrastructure

Public Key Infrastructure is a widely deployed security technology for handling key distribution and validation in computer security. Despite PKI’s popularity as a security solution, Phishing and other Man-in-the-Middle related network attacks are accomplished with ease. The major problems with PKI come down to trust, and largely, how much faith we must place in cryptographic keys alone to esta...

Beyond the Singularity of the 2-D Charged Black Hole

Two dimensional charged black holes in string theory can be obtained as exact SL(2,IR)×U(1) U(1) quotient CFTs. The geometry of the quotient is induced from that of the group, and in particular includes regions beyond the black hole singularities. Moreover, wavefunctions in such black holes are obtained from gauge invariant vertex operators in the SL(2, IR) CFT, hence their behavior beyond the ...

Diagnostic Thoracoscopy

Since the introduction of video-imaging and endoscopic surgical interventions, there is a worldwide renewed interest in thoracoscopy. However, thoracoscopy for diagnosis of pleural and pulmonary disease has been performed for more than 30 years. An overview is presented here of the results and experiences in the past 3 decades of thoracoscopy for diagnosis of pulmonary and pleural disease. Thor...

The centenary of medical thoracoscopy.