Miriam surgeon performs state’s first robotic thoracic surgical procedure

摘要

PROVIDENCE – IKENNA OKEREKE, MD , chief of thoracic surgery at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital, has become the first surgeon in Rhode Island to perform a thorac- ic (chest) surgical procedure using minimally invasive robotic technology. The technology allowed Dr. Okereke to remove and biopsy what turned out to be a benign tumor in the patient's mediastinum.