In the summer of 2012, Ron Sveden, 75, of Brewster, Massachusetts, who had emphysema, started feeling much worse and coughing a lot. Dr. Jeffrey Spillane diagnosed him with dehydration and pneumonia. Chest X-rays showed a small dark spot, possibly cancerous; however, a cancer test came back negative.
Sveden's doctor, concerned about the dark spot on his lung, decided to operate. As Dr. Spillane was probing the dark spot, he encountered an encrusted mass that looked nothing like a tumor, so he sent it to a pathologist for analysis.
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It was identified it as a vegetable. It turns out the spot was a pea that had sprouted and was growing inside Sveden’s chest. Doctors suspect he ate some peas and one when down the wrong way, where it sprouted.
Dr. Spillane joked, “A couple days in a dark, wet environment, I’d sprout too.”
According to Sveden’s pulmonologist, Dr. Scott Slater, it is not uncommon to accidentally inhale a small object. Sveden’s first meal after surgery? You guessed it. Peas! Source
In April 2009, the Russia media reported that Russian surgeons found a tiny, two-inch fir tree growing in Artyom Sidorkin’s lung. Sidorkin, 28, had complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood, and doctors were convinced he had a cancerous tumor. Before removing part of the man's lung, Kamashev investigated the tissue.
"We were 100 percent sure," said Vladimir Kamashev, a surgeon in Izhevsk in the Urals. "We did X-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumor. I had seen hundreds before, so we decided on surgery."
"When I cut, I saw tree needles. I thought I was hallucinating," he said. "I asked my assistant to have a look. 'Come and see this – we've got a fir tree here'. He nodded in shock.”
Sidorkin may have inhaled a seed that later sprouted into a small fir tree inside his lung. The spruce, which was touching the man's capillaries and causing severe pain, was removed and sent to a lab for testing. Had they not discovered the tree inside the man, it could have pierced his lung and caused severe internal bleeding.
Sidorkin said, "It was very painful, but to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me. I'm so relieved it's not cancer." Source
Conditions inside the lung are hot and humid, which are optimal for germinating a seed. Fortunately, both stories had a happy ending.
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