A five-centimeter fir tree has been found in the lung of a man who complained he had a strong pain in his chest and was coughing blood.
The 28-year-old patient, Artyom Sidorkin, came to a hospital in the city of
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
The five-centimeter
“They told me my coughing blood was not caused by any disease,” Sidorkin says.
“It was the needles poking the capillaries. It really hurt a lot. But I never felt like I had an alien object inside of me.”
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.
Meanwhile, the piece of lung with the little fir tree has been preserved for further study.
A FISH swam the wrong way when it leapt upstream into a boy's PENIS and ended up in his BLADDER.
The 2cm daredevil caused all kinds of medical problems when it swam through the teenager's urethra.
The unfortunate lad was taken to hospital with complaints of pain, dribbling urine and acute urinary retention.
He claimed the fish slipped into his penis while he was cleaning his aquarium at home in India.
Professor Vezhaventhan and Professor Jeyaraman, who treated the boy and later wrote a paper on the case, said: "While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine.
"When he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his URETHRA and then he developed all these symptoms."
After finding the fish in the boy's BLADDER, the medics insert a special set of forceps down the patient's penis in a technique known as cystourethroscopy.
But the fish was too slippery, so the professors used a rigid ureteroscope with a tool attached – normally used for removing bladder stones.
The fish, which is thought to be a small member of the Betta genus, measured 2cm long and 1.5cm wide.
The patient was later offered counselling.
