Fir tree found growing in man's lung.

Apr 13, 2009 22:00


Fir tree man shocks doctors

A young man from the capital of Russia’s Udmurtian Republic was diagnosed with cancer, and had to undergo an operation which revealed the shocking truth - he had no cancer but… a tree growing in his lung. 
It sounds like a story from Burger’s Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, when the eccentric Baron shot a cherry stone at a deer and it sprang into a cherry tree on the deer’s head.
For 28-year-old Artyom Sidorkin, though, it was no fun at all.
As Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper found out, he often had chest pains, and was coughing up blood.
An X-Ray showed a new growth in his lung, and doctors were certain it was a cancerous one.
Fortunately, when they dissected Artyom’s chest, it was decided to cut out a small piece first, and to carry out an express biopsy test. The doctor made an incision in the lung and saw… a fir tree. “I thought it was a hallucination,” said Vladimir Kamashev, deputy head doctor of the Udmurtian oncology hospital that was carrying out the operation. “I said to my assistant - come here and take a look…it seems as if there was a fir tree there…!


(Excerpt) Read more at russiatoday.com ...
Makes you afraid that your mom was right and a watermelon could grow in your stomach from swollowing the seeds!

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