Category: Odd + Funny Author : JR Posted: April 15, 2009
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Here’s a weird one for you: Russian surgeons say they found a fir tree growing inside a man’s lung. The doctors thought the growth was a tumor and were performing surgery to remove it when they realized it was a tree.
Image: The Daily Mail
Fir Tree in Lung
The fir tree in the lung was nearly 2 inches tall. Doctors say the man, a 28-year-old named Artyom Sidorkin, had been complaining of chest pains and coughing up blood, according to a report in the Daily Mail. The surgeons think he somehow swallowed a seed at some point, and it actually sprouted inside his lung.
“I thought I was hallucinating,” one of the doctors tells the Daily Mail. “I asked my assistant to have a look: ‘Come and see this . We’ve got a fir tree here.’”
The surgeons say the pine needles were poking through the man’s capillaries, which was causing his pain.
More photos at the Daily Mail.
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Apr 15, 2009
what the f
Apr 16, 2009
Guess his cough had quite (a) bark!
Apr 16, 2009
I will not believe the story till it is verified by a qualified pathologist. This could be a 'fungus ball' with green color and even branches which may resemble a tree. Let us wait for the pathologist's report, who always have the 'final answer.'
Apr 28, 2009
On the twenty-third day of the month of September
in an early year of a decade not too long before our own,
the human race suddenly encountered a deadly
threat to its very existence.
And this terrifying enemy surfaced,
as such enemies often do,
in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places.
Apr 29, 2009
My parents always warned me not to swallow seeds— now I see why LOL!
May 30, 2009
Excuse me for being a “doubting Thomas”…but… We can assume there could be oxygen from the air he was breathing and moisture from his body fluids. We could call that 'hydroponics” but NO SUNLIGHT….c'mon!!!
May 30, 2009
oh my good god did he swallow soil as well ???
Jun 1, 2009
plants need carbon dioxide not oxygen dumbass
Jun 5, 2009
This cannot be true because that chest radiograph is of a skeletally immature patient if you look at the shoulder (age less than 18), while they claim that the patient is 28. This radiograph has to be a fake.