blademaster
I'm moving to Brazil
+2,075|6616
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.

'I asked my assistant to have a look: 'Come and see this - we've got a fir tree here'. He nodded in shock.


https://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7901/article116986104717a220.jpg

'I blinked three times, sure I was seeing things,' he told the Komsomolskaya Pravda Daily.

The report also appeared in popular tabloid Komsomolskaya Gazeta, and was picked up by Russian news service Novosti.

Medical staff - arguing that a five-centimetre branch is too big to be swallowed - believe Sidorkin had somehow inhaled a seed, which later sprouted into a small fir tree inside his lung.

The explanation echoes what children are often jokingly told by their elders: That if you swallow the seeds of a fruit or vegetable it may grow inside you.

The spruce, which was apparently touching the man's capillaries and causing severe pain, was removed, they said.

'It was very painful. But to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me,' Sidorkin was quoted as saying.

'I'm so relieved it's not cancer.'

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Fallschirmjager10
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What the fuck?
Catbox
forgiveness
+505|6686
Tree smuggler... i've heard about these people...lol
my cousin had some type of plant growing in his sinus once...
Love is the answer
AussieReaper
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+5,761|6123|what

On the plus side, the tree was converting more oxygen for him.
https://i.imgur.com/maVpUMN.png
blademaster
I'm moving to Brazil
+2,075|6616

[TUF]Catbox wrote:

Tree smuggler... i've heard about these people...lol
my cousin had some type of plant growing in his sinus once...
thats scary 2
Mutantbear
Semi Constructive Criticism
+1,431|5935|London, England

AussieReaper wrote:

On the plus side, the tree was converting more oxygen for him.
Hmm I have an underwater breathing idea brb
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Macbeth
Banned
+2,444|5556

http://www.layscience.net/node/509
with picture of said tree and tumor.
Man With No Name
جندي
+148|5545|The Wild West
crazy
Ty
Mass Media Casualty
+2,398|6745|Noizyland

"Sir we have good news, you do not have Cancer, you have Fir Tree."

"I have what sorry?"

"Fir Tree. Yes it's a very common condition, completely treatable and you'll make a full recovery. Here, inhale this Herbicide."
[Blinking eyes thing]
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AussieReaper
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+5,761|6123|what

I'd like to know whether he kept the tree and planted it somewhere (if you've got a dirty mind I'll bet you just thought where that "somewhere" might be).
https://i.imgur.com/maVpUMN.png
Man With No Name
جندي
+148|5545|The Wild West
real tree man

https://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11/growthmanR_450x594.jpg
NateW
my sigs worse than yours
+191|6103

Man With No Name wrote:

real tree man

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11/gr … 50x594.jpg
Was just googling him today.
He's to the point now he can actually hold a pen.
GodFather
Blademaster's bottom bitch
+387|6190|Phoenix, AZ

NateWiese wrote:

Man With No Name wrote:

real tree man

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11/gr … 50x594.jpg
Was just googling him today.
He's to the point now he can actually hold a pen.
I want pix
AussieReaper
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+5,761|6123|what

NateWiese wrote:

Man With No Name wrote:

real tree man

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11/gr … 50x594.jpg
Was just googling him today.
He's to the point now he can actually hold a pen.
Did they whittle him down?
https://i.imgur.com/maVpUMN.png
GodFather
Blademaster's bottom bitch
+387|6190|Phoenix, AZ

AussieReaper wrote:

NateWiese wrote:

Man With No Name wrote:

real tree man

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11/gr … 50x594.jpg
Was just googling him today.
He's to the point now he can actually hold a pen.
Did they whittle him down?
Found this:

VicktorVauhn
Member
+319|6362|Southern California

AussieReaper wrote:

On the plus side, the tree was converting more oxygen for him.
HOLY SHIT HE COULD HOLD HIS BREATH FOREVER!!!!
gnot<3
Leave blank to use forum default.
+45|5525
one way to smuggle weed, cops can't do shit!
aerodynamic
FOCKING HELL
+241|5724|Roma

gnot<3 wrote:

one way to smuggle weed, cops can't do shit!
i bet that inside the lungs its all dark.
https://bf3s.com/sigs/8ea27f2d75b353b0a18b096ed75ec5e142da7cc2.png
NooBesT
Pizzahitler
+873|6439

Mutantbear wrote:

AussieReaper wrote:

On the plus side, the tree was converting more oxygen for him.
Hmm I have an underwater breathing idea brb
Sorry to rain on your parade, but photosyntesis needs light as well.
https://i.imgur.com/S9bg2.png
bennisboy
Member
+829|6617|Poundland

NooBesT wrote:

Mutantbear wrote:

AussieReaper wrote:

On the plus side, the tree was converting more oxygen for him.
Hmm I have an underwater breathing idea brb
Sorry to rain on your parade, but photosyntesis needs light as well.
Inhale a light, duh
Metal-Eater-GR
I can haz titanium paancakez?
+490|6243
How the hell did it get in there?
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|5759|Catherine Black

bennisboy wrote:

NooBesT wrote:

Mutantbear wrote:

Hmm I have an underwater breathing idea brb
Sorry to rain on your parade, but photosyntesis needs light as well.
Inhale a light, duh
Funniest quote combo ever.

Metal-Eater-GR wrote:

How the hell did it get in there?

blademaster wrote:

Medical staff - arguing that a five-centimetre branch is too big to be swallowed - believe Sidorkin had somehow inhaled a seed, which later sprouted into a small fir tree inside his lung.

Last edited by Finray (2009-04-15 03:19:23)

https://i.imgur.com/qwWEP9F.png
AussieReaper
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+5,761|6123|what

Must have been a bitch to decorate every Christmas.
https://i.imgur.com/maVpUMN.png
FEOS
Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate
+1,182|6381|'Murka

aerodynamic wrote:

gnot<3 wrote:

one way to smuggle weed, cops can't do shit!
i bet that inside the lungs its all dark.
So smuggle shrooms instead.
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BVC
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I wonder if they tried to keep growing the tree after removal..

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