It's Not a Tumah! It's a Tree!

By Alex in Health on Apr 13, 2009 at 1:38 pm

Doctors operating on 28-year-old Artyom Sidorkin was expecting to find a tumor in one of his lungs, but they got a big, green surprise during the surgery:

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. [...]

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.

Link (Photo: Komsomolskaya Pravda)


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  1. felipe
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Without sunlight? I did not knew it was possible... I'll never gonna swallow those watermellons seeds ever again!

  2. VonSkippy
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

    This makes the one-wing plane landing almost look real.

  3. nickolas_warner
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    I'm glad that the same thing doesn't happen when it goes in your stomach. By age five I would have had a national park growing inside me!

  4. atomicsecrets
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    This is going to make a great episode of House, MD.

    Lupus? No, tree!

  5. Ajan
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 3:04 pm

    Grow a eucalyptus inside you and you would never need to depend on the oxygen outside :P

  6. asil
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    this reminds me of the book Foam of the Daze, where a water lily grows in one of the character's lungs.

    good book.

  7. nef
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    How do the russia jokes?

    "In Soviet Russia, trees breath you"

  8. Kevin
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    I call "bull excrement" on this one.

  9. Christophe
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    If it's really real, I'd like to know the science behind this...

  10. LisaL
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    If it is real... well... wow. Certainly not something you hear about every day o_O

  11. Ali S.
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 11:48 pm

    If this is true we should try transplanting astronauts with built in tree systems so they can breathe on other planets! :D

  12. ninjameredith
    Apr 14th, 2009 at 12:43 am

    link is dead!

  13. Robolasse
    Apr 14th, 2009 at 2:31 am

    In Soviet Russia Threes cut you down!

  14. Kalel
    Apr 14th, 2009 at 11:34 am

    A whole new branch of medicine!

    [Sorry, but this thread was pining for a good pun.]

  15. violet
    Apr 14th, 2009 at 12:44 pm

    You're such a sap.

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