Apr 13, 2009 · The Russian publication Mosnews.com is reporting that a 28-year-old patient was found to have a five-centimeter fir tree in his lung. Doctors were performing a biopsy on the patient, Artyom Sidorkin, after he'd complained of intense chest pain and was coughing up blood.

Oct 6, 2022 · According to a 2009 report about a Russian surgeon and his patient, the human body can actually host trees — the little seedlings of which can sprout and grow in a person's lungs (via the Daily Mail). The surgery in question was scheduled after a troubling scan.

Apr 13, 2009 · Surgeons in Russia thought they were going to remove a cancerous tumor from a 28-year-old patient – but instead they found a 5-centimeter tree growing inside his lung.

Feb 10, 2016 · A fir tree has been found growing inside a man's lung by surgeons who were operating on him for suspected cancer.

To the best of our knowledge, there has never been a single report in the medical literature of seeds and/or plants growing in humans. If they did, watermelon seeds and peanuts, 4,5 which are the most commonly aspirated foreign bodies, would be growing out of control from our lungs.

Aug 12, 2010 · Ron Sveden, a retired teacher from Brewster, Massachusetts in the US was astonished to discover that what he thought was a tumor growing in his lung was actually a plant that had sprouted from...

Oct 3, 2023 · In 2009, a Russian man named Artyom Sidorkin made medical history when doctors discovered a fir tree growing inside his lung. Sidorkin had been experiencing chest pain and coughing up blood for several weeks, and doctors initially suspected lung cancer.

Sep 6, 2023 · In a clinical setting, a shocking X-ray reveals a tiny fir tree flourishing inside a patient's lung, leaving the medical community baffled. As children, we were often cautioned not to ingest...

Apr 16, 2009 · A Russian man who was being operated on for a suspected tumor ended up having a fir tree removed from one of his lungs. The 2-inch tree was found by surgeons when they opened up Artyom...

Apr 15, 2009 · Did fir branch prick a lung? 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.