Surgeons remove tree growing in man's lung

Surgeons remove tree growing in man's lung

by Liv | Published on April 16th, 2009, 6:21 pm | News

I have a phobia about this. I've had dreams where rice grows in my arms, flowers plant themselves in my belly button.... I wake up screaming. This is the worst possible reality news story I could ever post. It's my nightmare. Who cares if it's impossible... It scares the heck out of me...

A five-centimeter fir tree has been found in the lung of a man who complained he had a strong pain in his chest and was coughing 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 things. Then I called the assistant to have a look,” says Vladimir Kamashev, doctor at the Udmurtian Cancer Center.

The five-centimeter branch was removed from the patient’s body.

“They told me my coughing blood was not caused by any disease,” Sidorkin says.

“It was the needles poking the capillaries. It really hurt a lot. But I never felt like I had an alien object inside of me.”

It is obvious that a five-centimeter branch is too large to be inhaled or swallowed, doctors say. They suggest that the patient might have inhaled a small bud, which then started to grow inside his body.

Meanwhile, the piece of lung with the little fir tree has been preserved for further study.

[A Person]

I don't believe that for a minute. I don't know what the real story is, but there is no way a seed or bud would grow inside a lung - and be that nice dark green growing in the dark. And where are the roots?

They seem to have removed the whole lung too.

[Liv]

I suppose it's possible.... right? You need sun, water and minerals.... all of it's technically there. Even the sun makes me think about the flashlight shining through the hand thing.... I imagine some light has to pass through the tissue...

Here's another example:

“We were surprised to find a 3cm piece of grass growing on the baby’s right lung,” said chief surgeon Li Qun. via

[A Person]

It wouldn't surprise me to find a piece of grass in a lung - even a piece of grass with roots on it - but it wouldn't be green. Seeds can germinate without light, but here we see a fairly stout piece of spruce twig that looks mature, stiff green needles. I know what spruce seedlings look like and they have soft, flexible light green needles. This picture shows a bundle of seedlings, several weeks old and 10" long


If that picture is genuine then it doesn't match the description. The whole lung has been removed - not just a 'tumor' - I'd say the owner was dead.

Assuming it wasn't faked - if a twig was inhaled the needles would act as ratchets, preventing it from being coughed out and getting sucked deeper with each breath. Nasty

[A Person]

Here is what a Tree branch in a lung really looks like

[BecauseHeLives]

Man! This is making me itch for a ribeye.

[Liv]

Settle for a Sirloin? Food Lion has them on sale.

[Sanjuro]

Settle for a Sirloin? Food Lion has them on sale.

Uugghghughgghh... Food Lion meat... might as well be chomping on roadkill... So far Lowes Foods has had the best beef with the Teeter being a second.

[Liv]

Settle for a Sirloin? Food Lion has them on sale.

Uugghghughgghh... Food Lion meat... might as well be chomping on roadkill... So far Lowes Foods has had the best beef with the Teeter being a second.

You want good meat? Go to Homeland Creamery... Fresh from the farm... though you might have to "order" certain cuts.

[A Person]

I remeber once buying calf lung, thinking it was liver. When I tried to fry it, it swelled up, making disgusting gooping, whistling and popping sounds and quivering as if it was alive.

I'm told that if you boil lung in salted water for an hour, beat it flat with a hammer, fry and then simmer in white wine, chopped tomatoes, garlic, salt, pepper for another hour it tastes of wine, tomatoes and garlic

[Liv]

Where along the freakin yellow brick road did you get a factoid like that?

Do Canadians eat a lot of lung?

[A Person]

I was camping in Greece - hence the confusion: πνεύμονας or συκώτι - all Greek to me.

As for the recipe, I was given that after I told my story. But no, no-one much eats lung in England or Canada, although sheep's lung is a traditional ingredient in Haggis, so I must have eaten it without realising.

I'm told it can't be sold for human consumption in the USA so American Haggis is lung-free

[BecauseHeLives]

I was camping in Greece - hence the confusion: πνεύμονας or συκώτι - all Greek to me.

As for the recipe, I was given that after I told my story. But no, no-one much eats lung in England or Canada, although sheep's lung is a traditional ingredient in Haggis, so I must have eaten it without realising.

I'm told it can't be sold for human consumption in the USA so American Haggis is lung-free

Just the fact that you were purposely trying to by liver just grosses me out.

[Liv]

I guess I shouldn't say too much... I forgot about hot-dogs... proabably some lungs in that.

[A Person]

Just the fact that you were purposely trying to by liver just grosses me out.

What a shame. Calf's liver and onions seethed in its mother's milk - mmmm. Nearly as good as the other abominations in Leviticus like crab, shrimp and lobster.

Not to mention steak and kidney pie or devilled lamb's kidneys with grilled tomatoes. The devil gets the best songs and the best food.

[Liv]

Settle for a Sirloin? Food Lion has them on sale.

Uugghghughgghh... Food Lion meat... might as well be chomping on roadkill... So far Lowes Foods has had the best beef with the Teeter being a second.

I got a huge cow from them tonight... it was pretty good.

Thick 2" cut steaks the size of your plate.... and there's probably about 10lbs left in the fridge.... Actually quite good for the $17.00 I paid

[Liv]

Video now on it.

[Liv]

It's happened again... this time with a pea:

I was told I had a pea seed in my lung that had split and had sprouted,” said Ron Sveden.

It was not the diagnosis Ron Sveden was expecting. He had prepared himself to hear the words cancer and tumor, but a plant growing in his lung?

“Probably about a half-an-inch, which is a pretty big thing of course,” said Sveden.

The Takeaway: Stop eating vegetables. If you eat a hamburger, and it goes down the wrong way, nothing "grows" in your lung—you just die of asphyxiation. But if you eat a pea, you could turn into a man-pea hybrid. Ask yourself: Which is worse? cite

[A Person]

"God has such a sense of humor"

That scallywag Yahweh, He should change His name to Loki

Good Job (gedditt?) the victim of God's little prank had the benefit of modern science.