How was a pine tree able to grow in a person's lung?

But that doesn't automatically mean the surgeons didn't find it. One picture of said “pine tree” circulating on the Internet: Aspiration seems to be the most likely explanation, not that it grew in his lungs. It's surprising how many foreign objects can be aspirated, often without the person realizing it. read more

Easy. It wasn’t able to grow in a person’s lung. But that doesn’t automatically mean the surgeons didn’t find it. read more

Surgeons find fir tree 'growing inside patient's lung' Russian surgeons have claimed to have found a two-inch fir tree growing inside a man's lung. read more

Surgeons in Russia thought they were going to remove a cancerous tumor from a 28-year-old patient – but instead they found a 5-centimeter tree growing inside his lung. It happened in Russia’s Urals region while doctors were operating on Artyom Sidorkin, the Russian newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda Daily reported Monday. read more