Russian doctors found a fir tree growing in Artyom Sidorkin’s lung

Russian surgeons who thought they were removing a tumor from a twenty-eight year-old patient they were convinced had cancer, found a fir tree growing inside the man’s lung instead.

Doctors were convinced that Artyom Sidorkin had cancer when he started complaining about extreme chest pain and coughing up blood.

“We were 100 percent sure,” Dr. Vladimir Kamashev from Izhevsh in the Urals, told the media.  “We did X-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumor.  I had seen hundreds before, so we decided on surgery.”

Dr. Kamashev claims that while he was looking at a tissue in preparation of removing the patient’s lung, he found what looked like a grown fir tree with needles.

The doctor said he thought he was hallucinating and asked his assistant to have a look.  “Come and see,” he said.  “We’ve got a fir tree here.”

The doctor said he was so shocked that he blinked three times to make sure he was not seeing things that weren’t there.

According to medical professionals, the five-centimeter branch was too big for Sidorkin to have swallowed, so they believe he swallowed a seed, which later sprouted into a small fir tree in his lung.

Sidorkin told reporters that he is happy that it was not cancer, and said although it was very painful, “I did not feel any foreign object inside of me.”