Tree Found Growing in Man’s Lung

Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in Blog

A Russian man had a 5 cm long fir tree removed from his lungs after complaining of chest pains and coughing up blood:
The 28-year-old patient, Artyom Sidorkin, came to a hospital in the city of Izhevsk in Central Russia 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 [...]