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By DAVID WILLETTS
Published: 14 Apr 2009
STUNNED doctors removed a two-inch long FIR TREE from a man's lung after operating on him for suspected cancer.
Russian surgeons thought Artyom Sidorkin, 28, had a cancerous tumour when he started coughing up blood and complaining of agonising chest pains.
But when they opened the man up they discovered a perfectly formed fir tree instead.
Vladimir Kamashev, who operated on the patient, said: "I thought I was hallucinating.
"I asked my assistant to have a look, saying 'come and see this - we've got a fir tree here'. He nodded in shock.
"I blinked three times, sure I was seeing things."
Medical staff believe Sidorkin inhaled a seed, which later sprouted into a small fir tree inside his lung.
Before making the shock discovery the medics had been certain the man had a tumour.
Kamashev added: "We were 100 per cent sure. We did X-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumour. I had seen hundreds before, so we decided on surgery."
Part of his lung with the embedded spruce, which was putting pressure on his veins causing severe pain, was successfully removed.
Sidorkin said: "It was very painful. But to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me. I'm so relieved it's not cancer."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2376397.ece
Published: 14 Apr 2009
STUNNED doctors removed a two-inch long FIR TREE from a man's lung after operating on him for suspected cancer.
Russian surgeons thought Artyom Sidorkin, 28, had a cancerous tumour when he started coughing up blood and complaining of agonising chest pains.
But when they opened the man up they discovered a perfectly formed fir tree instead.
Vladimir Kamashev, who operated on the patient, said: "I thought I was hallucinating.
"I asked my assistant to have a look, saying 'come and see this - we've got a fir tree here'. He nodded in shock.
"I blinked three times, sure I was seeing things."
Medical staff believe Sidorkin inhaled a seed, which later sprouted into a small fir tree inside his lung.
Before making the shock discovery the medics had been certain the man had a tumour.
Kamashev added: "We were 100 per cent sure. We did X-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumour. I had seen hundreds before, so we decided on surgery."
Part of his lung with the embedded spruce, which was putting pressure on his veins causing severe pain, was successfully removed.
Sidorkin said: "It was very painful. But to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me. I'm so relieved it's not cancer."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2376397.ece
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