Signs of Spring: Fir Tree Found Growing in Man's Lungs
Ah, the smells of spring! The sweet perfume of lilacs and cherry blossoms. The comforting scent of dirt after a gentle rain. Makes you want to inhale deeply, to store up all these evanescent odors to sustain you through another blazing-hot St. Louis summer, right?
Not so fast.
(And beware those who venture past the jump. It's pretty grisly back there.)
Artyom Sidorkin, a 28-year-old man in the Central Russian city of Izhevsk, checked into a local hospital a few weeks ago. Sidorkin was coughing up blood and complained of a pain in his chest, reports Komsomolskaya Pravda Daily.
An X-ray showed that there was something in Sidorkin's lung, probably a tumor. Doctors at Udmurtian Cancer Center prepared for a biopsy.
But when they cut into Sidorkin's chest, they noticed something strange. The tumor was green. It also appeared to have needles.
It was indeed exactly what it looked like: a five-centimenter-long fir tree. The needles had been pressing into Sidorkin's capillaries, which caused the bleeding.
It is unclear how a fir tree ended up in Sidorkin's lung. The prevailing theory is that Sidorkin inhaled a tiny bud, which took root (or something) and began to grow.
"It really hurt a lot. But I never felt like I had an alien object inside of me," Sidorkin said.
Well, that's...um...comforting.
Komsomolskaya Pravda has graciously provided the real picture of the biopsy.
Not so fast.
(And beware those who venture past the jump. It's pretty grisly back there.)
Artyom Sidorkin, a 28-year-old man in the Central Russian city of Izhevsk, checked into a local hospital a few weeks ago. Sidorkin was coughing up blood and complained of a pain in his chest, reports Komsomolskaya Pravda Daily.
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| A artist's rendering of Sidorenko's lungs, had the tree not been removed. Not to scale. |
But when they cut into Sidorkin's chest, they noticed something strange. The tumor was green. It also appeared to have needles.
It was indeed exactly what it looked like: a five-centimenter-long fir tree. The needles had been pressing into Sidorkin's capillaries, which caused the bleeding.
It is unclear how a fir tree ended up in Sidorkin's lung. The prevailing theory is that Sidorkin inhaled a tiny bud, which took root (or something) and began to grow.
"It really hurt a lot. But I never felt like I had an alien object inside of me," Sidorkin said.
Well, that's...um...comforting.
Komsomolskaya Pravda has graciously provided the real picture of the biopsy.
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