5 cm. fir tree removed from patient's lung
13 Apr, 11:35 PM
A five-centimeter fir tree has been found in the lung of a man who complained he had a strong pain in his chest and was coughing blood.
The 28-year-old patient, Artyom Sidorkin, came to a hospital in the city of in last week, Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reports.
Doctors x-rayed his chest and found a tumor in one of the lungs. Suspecting cancer, they made a decision to perform biopsy, but when they cut the tissue, they were amazed to see green needles in the cut.
"I blinked three times, and thought I was seeing things. Then I called the assistant to have a look," says Vladimir Kamashev, doctor at the .
The five-centimeter was removed from the patient's body.
"They told me my coughing blood was not caused by any disease," Sidorkin says.
"It was the needles poking the capillaries. It really hurt a lot. But I never felt like I had an alien object inside of me."
It is obvious that a five-centimeter branch is too large to be inhaled or swallowed, doctors say. They suggest that the patient might have inhaled a small bud, which then started to grow inside his body.
Meanwhile, the piece of lung with the little fir tree has been preserved for further study.
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http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/04/13/firtree/
So I shared with a few today and thought i would give to the wider audience. You remember when you were a kid and people mentioned the whole you swallow a watermelon seed and a watermelon will grow in your stomach? Yeah this is worse.
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