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Methais
04-17-2009, 12:46 AM
MOSCOW, RUSSIA -- Here's a story that you just can't make up.

Doctors in the Urals region of Russia were amazed when they found a fir tree growing inside the patient's lung.

Click on the slideshow to the left to see the tree the doctors removed Surgeons made the discovery when they were doing a biopsy on the 28-year-old man, Artyom Sidorki.

He had complained to doctors of having extreme pains in his chest, and had also been coughing up blood.

His doctors suspected Artyom had cancer. That's when they decided to perform the biopsy procedure to make sure.

But they never imagined seeing a small spruce growing inside the lung tissue. One of the surgeons, Vladimir Kamashev, says, "I blinked three times and thought I was seeing things."

Doctors are convinced the man had somehow inhaled a seed, which began to succesfully grow inside his lung.

http://www.abc2news.com/news/local/story/Tree-Grows-in-Mans-Lung/5qk5H6UhdkGpML4TnSUREw.cspx

Fuck off if it's been posted already. It's not on the first page so it doesn't exist.

Shari
04-17-2009, 12:50 AM
That is some crazy fucking shit.

When I was a kid I was always terrified of eating fruit seeds (watermelon, apple, etc) because I thought the plant would grow inside my stomach.

I NEVER CONSIDERED THE DANGER OF INHALING ONE.

Seriously, weird.

Hips
04-17-2009, 01:21 AM
W T F.

That's fucked up and awesome all at the same time. I would so plant it and keep it, haha.

Sean of the Thread
04-17-2009, 07:01 AM
Whaaaa? Unreal. Fuck yeah I'd keep it and grow that.

Ker_Thwap
04-17-2009, 07:53 AM
Why would a biopsy remove several pounds of tissue?

Fallen
04-17-2009, 08:20 AM
Roots?

Kuyuk
04-17-2009, 08:58 AM
yeah, I thought that was from an autopsy.......


K.

ElvenFury
04-17-2009, 09:38 AM
Roots?

Classic movie!

On a side note, that story sounds pretty fake to me. That branch in the photo would have to be from a big damn tree.

NocturnalRob
04-17-2009, 09:40 AM
In Soviet Russia, tree grow you.

Sean of the Thread
04-17-2009, 09:51 AM
Classic movie!

On a side note, that story sounds pretty fake to me. That branch in the photo would have to be from a big damn tree.

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/R/htmlR/roots/rootsIMAGE/roots.jpg

Ignot
04-17-2009, 09:55 AM
HE IS A TREANT!


/sigh, that joke only works with you nerds.

Kuyuk
04-17-2009, 11:51 AM
yeah, I also thought that tree piece looked extremely large for something that was growing inside someone.

grenthor
04-17-2009, 12:27 PM
That looks a whole lot like just the end of a branch off a pine tree stuck in some tissue. If it was "growing" where are the roots? It's just one solid piece of branch with some needles on it.

The article says it was a biopsy but that's a gigantic hunk of lung tissue.

I'm calling shenanigans on this.

Sean of the Thread
04-17-2009, 01:30 PM
I think they used an archive photo of the a fir branch rather than the actual biop material?