Surgeons Find Tree Growing Inside Man's Lung

[mercurial]

Surgeons in Russia thought they were going to remove a cancerous tumor from a 28-year-old patient – but instead they found a 5-centimeter tree growing inside his lung.

It happened in Russia’s Urals region while doctors were operating on Artyom Sidorkin, the Russian newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda Daily reported Monday.

Doctors suspected Sidorkin had cancer after he complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood.

"I blinked three times and thought I was seeing things," Surgeon Vladimir Kamashev told the newspaper.

Doctors believe Sidorkin somehow inhaled a seed, which later sprouted inside his lung.

The spruce, which was touching the man's capillaries and causing severe pain, was removed

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[Tux]

En daar het julle dit: Boom is sleg vir jou longe.

 

[BCO]

I hope they replanted the little guy somewhere else.

 

[Chris_H]

lol, I thought that inhaling something like a seed would cause you to cough like crazy!?

 

[guest2013-1]

I hope they replanted the little guy somewhere else.

Me too, would be an awesome story to tell in 20 years time. "You see that tree kids? That tree started growing in my lungs.... amazing hey?"

 

[Flanders]

That damned Chernobyl incident! It spawned the evolution of the lung tree!

Now all we need is the bladder cactus and I'm moving to the moon!

 

[Picard]

Poison Ivy would have loved him.

 

[genetic]

At least he wasn't an oxygen thief.

 

[boramk]

Dude seriously WTF how is that possible?
Do our lung tissue have the nutrients required for plant growth?

 

[Picard]

Dude seriously WTF how is that possible?
Do our lung tissue have the nutrients required for plant growth?

If your body can push up daisies, I'm sure it can help a tree grow inside your lung.

 

[Ou grote]

I knew broccoli wasn't healthy.

 

[Kilgore_Trout_Redux]

That damned Chernobyl incident! It spawned the evolution of the lung tree!

Dude, Chernobyl was the Ukraine.

 

[Flanders]

Dude, Chernobyl was the Ukraine.

Yes, but they said the fallout affected areas as far away as Scotland!

 

[LazyLion]

I wonder if he is going to branch out into gardening now?

 

[smokey]

No way, he turned a new leaf...

 

[Flanders]

Although this experience did give him wood...

 

[dabbler]

Plenty of oxygen in the lungs

 

[LazyLion]

the doctors were barking up the wrong tree!

 

[Jewelbox]

What about it's roots? Where will they branch to?

 

[konfab]

LOL, it's like the one quest in fallout 3