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Russian doctors find tree growing in man's lung
Ria Novosti ^ | 04/13/09

Posted on 04/13/2009 8:41:59 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Russian doctors find tree growing in man's lung

12:17 | 13/ 04/ 2009

MOSCOW, April 13 (RIA Novosti) - Surgeons in Russia's Urals Region were staggered to find a 5-centimeter high spruce growing inside a man's lung, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported on Monday.

The discovery was made while Artyom Sidorkin, 28, from the Urals city of Izhevsk, was undergoing surgery.

Sidorkin had complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood, doctors suspected cancer.

"I blinked three times and thought I was seeing things," Izhevsk surgeon Vladimir Kamashev told the paper.

Medical staff believe Sidorkin had somehow inhaled a seed, which later sprouted inside his lung. The spruce, which was touching the man's capillaries and causing severe pain, was removed.

"It was very painful. But to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me," Sidorkin said.


TOPICS: Local News; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: lung; russia; tree
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1 posted on 04/13/2009 8:42:00 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

What???

I plant hundreds of seeds every year and none have grown in any of my body parts. Weird.


2 posted on 04/13/2009 8:48:28 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: mplsconservative

Make sure you don’t inhale any seed.:-) Give a new meaning to “I didn’t inhale.”


3 posted on 04/13/2009 8:49:33 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (from "Irrational Exuberance" to "Mark to Zero": from '96 to '09)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I can’t believe they didn’t call a tree surgeon.
sorry.sorry.....sorry......


4 posted on 04/13/2009 8:50:06 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("No symbols where none intended"--Beckett)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Diana in Wisconsin; Gabz

Weird garden ping.


5 posted on 04/13/2009 8:50:23 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The Web site doesn’t show a picture. I’d like to see this.

Remember when you were a kid and Mom warned you to not stick things up your nose? I knew someone who told me her mother told her to not swallow seeds or a tree would grow in her stomach.


6 posted on 04/13/2009 8:52:13 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: TigerLikesRooster

No carrots growing out of my nose. LOL


7 posted on 04/13/2009 8:52:21 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Is the man’s name Brooklyn?


8 posted on 04/13/2009 8:53:01 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: thecodont

An earlier version of this had the bloody lung picture. You didn’t miss much. But sure enough there was a little bitty tree in there.


9 posted on 04/13/2009 8:53:57 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: thecodont

There was an earlier post that had a pic.


10 posted on 04/13/2009 8:54:28 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I hate it when that happens.


11 posted on 04/13/2009 8:55:03 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This is a 2 inch sprout.

I say this guy was somehow inspired to do something weird, perhaps under the influence of something strange.


12 posted on 04/13/2009 8:56:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

When snorting seed is outlawed, only outlaws will grow spruce trees in their lungs.


13 posted on 04/13/2009 8:56:25 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: shibumi
"The Larch"


14 posted on 04/13/2009 8:58:58 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

He was a seedy character.


15 posted on 04/13/2009 9:00:12 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Photobucket

This is what happens when a tree absorbs too much greenhouse gas.

16 posted on 04/13/2009 9:03:27 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: thecodont

I was recently told of a kid that had a bean sprout in his sinus.


17 posted on 04/13/2009 9:04:40 PM PDT by digger48
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To: supremedoctrine
I can’t believe they didn’t call a tree surgeon

What branch of medicine is that?

18 posted on 04/13/2009 9:05:54 PM PDT by digger48
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To: DannyTN
only outlaws will grow spruce trees in their lungs.

Would you like to be a said outlaw? :-)

19 posted on 04/13/2009 9:06:48 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (from "Irrational Exuberance" to "Mark to Zero": from '96 to '09)
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To: supremedoctrine

LOL! Good one!


20 posted on 04/13/2009 9:10:04 PM PDT by BlueAngel
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