Posted on 04/14/2009 11:15:40 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Shocked Russian surgeons claim they found a five-centimetre fir tree growing inside a man's lung as they operated on him for suspected cancer.
The amazing discovery apparently was made when they opened up Artyom Sidorkin, 28, to remove what they thought was a serious tumour.
Sidorkin had complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood. Doctors were convinced he had cancer, Russian website mosnews.com reported.
'We were 100 per cent sure,' said surgeon Vladimir Kamashev from Izhevsk in the Urals. 'We did X-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumour.
'I had seen hundreds before, so we decided on surgery.'
Before removing part of the man's lung, the surgeon investigated the tissue - and said they found what looked like grown fir tree needles in it.
'I thought I was hallucinating,' said Kamashev.
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I’ll refrain from John Birch jokes.
Fir tree man shocks doctors
RT | 13 April, 2009 | RT Wire
Posted on 04/13/2009 3:18:56 PM PDT by Timedrifter
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I’m not sure, but I think he was being sarcastic. ;^)
I didn’t read the entire thread yet, if this is true, my guess is that it thinks it’s still underground??? LoL it’s so sad, how’d he get the seed to germinate?
Were they able to save the tree?
Were they able to extirpate it?
It’s always the fir trees that suffer in these situations.
Perfect incubator, except for the host’s immune system.
I wonder if he’s immuno-compromised ...
They were barking up the wrong tree.
That’s enough sappy jokes.
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