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The amazing ‘discovery’ was apparently made when they opened up Artyom Sidorkin, 28, to remove what they thought was a serious tumour.
Mr Sidorkin had complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood. Doctors were convinced he had cancer. “We were 100 per cent sure,” said Vladimir Kamashev, a surgeon in Izhevsk in the Urals. “We did X-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumour.
“I had seen hundreds before, so we decided on surgery.”
Before removing part of the man’s lung, the surgeon investigated the tissue. “I thought I was hallucinating,” said Mr Kamashev. “I asked my assistant to have a look: ‘Come and see this – we’ve got a fir tree here’. He nodded in shock. I blinked three times as I was sure I was seeing things.”
Medical staff said that Mr Sidorkin must have inhaled a seed, which later sprouted into a small fir tree inside his lung. The spruce, which was said to be touching the man’s capillaries and causing severe pain, was removed.
“It was very painful. But to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me,” said Mr Sidorkin. “I’m so relieved it’s not cancer.”
Saw this on a different blog a couple days ago, and it seems a reference to the surgeon seeing green was removed. Maybe, because the tree couldn’t be green without light. Photosynthesis, you know. Call me a skeptic on this one.
I think someone had an orange seed get stuck in their throat and germinate. All of the chimicals needed for life are in body fluids though I doubt if it is and ideal growing environment for plants.
Saw this on a different blog a couple days ago
Ditto.
Maybe, because the tree couldn’t be green without light. Photosynthesis, you know. Call me a skeptic on this one.
And ditto.
Heh Going green is not always be a good thing 😉
Saw this on the National Enquirer too.
All you have to do is print the page and it will be true. Just ask anyone who works for a newspaper.
I’m calling shenanigans on this one. It doesn’t even look like a sapling. At best he somehow got the tip of a fir tree into his lung. At worst the story is a full-on fabrication. And why, if you open this guy up and find a fir tree, do you go ahead and rip out a big chunk of his lung?
I swear to god… for a website managed by a bunch of buffoons that purport to be computer geeks you guys are, without question, the stupidest and most gullible people on the entire Internet.
The amount of times you losers are taken in by hoaxes is unreal.
FFS, take 2 minutes to do some research, like I did, before posting such nonsense…
http://cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/14/fir-tree-lung.html
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.
Artyom Sidorkin, 28, was treated at a hospital in Izhevsk, Russia, last week, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported.
When doctors X-rayed his chest, they found signs of a tumour, so they operated to take a biopsy. That’s when they found what appeared to be a fir sapling, it’s claimed.
Dr. Vladimir Kamashev, deputy head surgeon at the Udmurtian Cancer Centre, told the newspaper that he blinked three times on seeing the green needles and called an assistant to take a look.
The branch was too large to have been inhaled or swallowed, the doctors said.
Rather, they think Sidorkin may have inhaled a small bud that sprouted inside him.
Too dark to sprout
But commenters have questioned whether it could grow from a seed.
“It looks like a hoax to me,” said Prof. Peter Kotanen, a plant ecology researcher at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.
“It’s dark inside a lung, and most seeds need light to stimulate germination and to grow.”
Asked to looked at internet photos of the purported seedling in lung tissue, Kotanen said firs have small seeds, while the seedling illustrated is quite big.
“I don’t see how it could get anywhere near that size without photosynthesis,” Kotanen said in an email to CBC News.
“Finally, it looks pretty healthy, which I wouldn’t expect. Most plants that grow in the dark lack chlorophyll, and are very yellow and unhappy looking.”
Also, human body temperatures would not be amenable to the development of a cold-adapted tree species, said Prof. Sean Thomas, Canada research chair in forests and environmental change at the University of Toronto.
X-ray discrepencies
The X-ray also depicts a conifer with different leaf angles and a more filamentous appearance than the shoot in the lung tissue, Thomas said.
Assuming that the whole thing is not a complete hoax, it’s more likely that a fir shoot was inhaled and lodged in the lung, or perhaps fell in during the operation, he said.
An X-ray accompanying the report also shows a growth plate in the shoulder that is not fused, which points to a pediatric case, not a 28-year-old patient, according to a radiologist consulted by CBC News.
The claim has not been independently verified, and the story ran on what would be April Fool’s Day according to the Russian Julian calendar. Russian news agencies have been known to publish hoaxes in the past.
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There are no roots… they could have at least used a real sapling with roots instead of a sprig… lazy bastards!
#8. Trouble – This is an entertainment blog. A lot of the stories on here are suspect. Do we really have to keep pointing that out to you? If you don’t like the blog, there is an easy solution. Guess what it is….
This is exactly what happens when you roll and smoke a pine cone.
Later
In Soviet Russia, the tree grows (in) you!
I am convinced that JCD et al are trying to turn this blog into a spoof site.
When I first started reading this blog it was always about interesting tech news with a funny twist… Now it is all just made up nonsense, rubbish from the UK gutter press, bollocks about fascist states and pretty much zero about tech!
Nothing wrong with that…. It’s their site!
Just announce it and have done with it!