Biopsy Reveals that the Tumor in the Xray was a Tree in Reality However, before the daunting procedure of removing a significant portion of the patient's lung begins, Dr. Vladimir Kamashev, the ...

A man who was coughing up blood and complaining of chest pain seems to have had a five-centimetre fir tree in his lungs — unless, of course, it was all a hoax. Artyom Sidorkin, 28, was treated ...

Cape Town - Did your granny also warn you not to swallow pips, because a little tree would grow in your tummy (or lung)? A Russian made the news far and wide, after it was alleged that there's a ...

After submitting to an X-ray the doctors saw a lump in the patient’s lung. After a biopsying the lump the doctors pulled out a 5 centimeter fir tree branch out of his lung, complete with needles.

But here's a first, at least it seems so: A tree (I've read fir and spruce) germinated and grew to 2 inches in a Russian man's lung. Not surprisingly, there's been a lot of online chatter about ...

A chest X-ray might tell your doctor if your lungs are holding in too much air, but the best way to confirm you have bronchiolitis obliterans is to have a biopsy. This is most often done with surgery.

Yes, this whole tree-like blood clot emerged from a 36-year-old patient in one piece. The patient had received blood thinners after having a mechanical heart pump placed in his body.

Chest x-ray demonstrated a sensitivity of 66.7% and a specificity of 100%, while low-dose CT demonstrated 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity for an overall accuracy of 100%.

The news story of the Russian who allegedly had a little pine tree growing in his lung, is a tad hard to swallow, since plant material can't grow inside a human body, experts say. Publications YOU go!