A Russian man who ingested a tiny seed turns out to have been carrying an inch-long fir seedling in his lung.Artyom Sidorkin, 28, went to a hospital in his hometown in central Russia last week complaining of chest pain.Doctors x-rayed his chest and feared the worst when they spotted what they thought was a tumor.
Sidorkin was admitted to a cancer center but when the surgeon performed a biopsy, a few tender green needles poked out. Doctors think Sidorkin inhaled the seed and it somehow took root. They're preserving the surrounding lung tissue for further study.
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