Miami Saturday Session 9 Thoraco Abdominal 1

Precision in thoracic surgery often hinges on correctly identifying what is actually being treated, and this session offers three cases that test exactly that skill. Prof. Manu Sancheti opens with a robotic single-port mediastinal mass resection, demonstrating how a minimally invasive approach can be applied even to complex mediastinal pathology. Dr. Mahesh Patel follows with a robotic left upper lobectomy that required pulmonary artery resection, a technically demanding combination that raises the stakes for precision and vascular control. Dr. Abhinav Deshpande closes with a particularly instructive case, a robotic ectopic thymoma excision that had initially been misdiagnosed as a pericardial cyst, underscoring the diagnostic challenges that can precede even a well-executed operation. All three surgeons remain for an extended discussion, unpacking the decision-making behind each case in detail. Thoracic surgeons, surgical oncologists, and robotic surgery fellows will find this session valuable for its combination of technical detail and diagnostic reasoning, offering insight into how robotic platforms are being applied to increasingly complex and sometimes misidentified thoracic pathology.

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