tree man : the weirdest thind I have ever seen so far...

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    Fir tree man shocks doctors
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    13 April, 2009, 12:45

    A young man from the capital of Russia’s Udmurtian Republic was diagnosed with cancer, and had to undergo an operation which revealed the shocking truth – he had no cancer but... a tree growing in his lung.

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    It sounds like a story from Burger’s Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, when the eccentric Baron shot a cherry stone at a deer and it sprang into a cherry tree on the deer’s head.

    For 28-year-old Artyom Sidorkin, though, it was no fun at all.

    As Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper found out, he often had chest pains, and was coughing up blood.

    An X-Ray showed a new growth in his lung, and doctors were certain it was a cancerous one.

    Fortunately, when they dissected Artyom’s chest, it was decided to cut out a small piece first, and to carry out an express biopsy test. The doctor made an incision in the lung and saw... a fir tree.

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