The Lawspeaker
04-14-2009, 08:11 PM
5 cm. fir tree removed from patient’s lung
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 <st: city="" w:st="on">Izhevsk</st:> in <st: w:st="on" place="">Central Russia</st:> 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 <st: w:st="on" place=""><st: w:st="on" placename="">Udmurtian</st:> <st: w:st="on" placename="">Cancer</st:> <st: w:st="on" placetype="">Center</st:></st:>.
The five-centimeter <st: w:st="on" place=""><st: city="" w:st="on">branch</st:></st:> 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.
Source: Mosnews.com (http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/04/13/firtree/)
(article contains a disturbing image that I have not copied so if one wants to see it just click on the link).
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 <st: city="" w:st="on">Izhevsk</st:> in <st: w:st="on" place="">Central Russia</st:> 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 <st: w:st="on" place=""><st: w:st="on" placename="">Udmurtian</st:> <st: w:st="on" placename="">Cancer</st:> <st: w:st="on" placetype="">Center</st:></st:>.
The five-centimeter <st: w:st="on" place=""><st: city="" w:st="on">branch</st:></st:> 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.
Source: Mosnews.com (http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/04/13/firtree/)
(article contains a disturbing image that I have not copied so if one wants to see it just click on the link).