Artem Sidorkin was diagnosed with a terrible cancer. But during the operation, the doctors found a 5-centimeter spruce branch in the guy's body
- Yes, we were one hundred percent sure. The 28-year-old guy had severe seizures, he often coughed up blood, - recalls Vladimir Kamashev, deputy. head physician of the Udmurt Oncology Center. - Looked at the X-rays and found a tumor. I have seen hundreds of them in my practice. They decided to have an operation. Even having opened his chest, the doctor had no doubt that Artyom had cancer. But, before cutting out half of the lung, I decided to make sure of this - to give a piece of the organ for urgent research. I made an incision and … came across green spruce branches.
- I blinked three times, I thought - it was imagining, - the doctor smiles. - Carefully I say to the assistant: "Come and see … It seems there is a tree there!" The man nodded in shock. Then he confessed that he thought I was crazy.
The tree was removed. And they immediately measured it - 5 centimeters!
The doctors are still in shock. Artyom could not breathe or somehow swallow such a twig - it simply would not have passed into the lung. So the guy breathed in a very small bud of ate. And it sprouted in the lung. And what, all the conditions are there - moisture, heat, oxygen.
At the first moment, this story brings a smile. Like in a book about Baron Munchausen, who shot a deer with a cherry bone and a cherry tree grew on his head.
But Artyom was not laughing.
- They explained to me that I coughed up blood not because of some illness. The needles just touched the capillaries … It was very painful. But, to be honest, I didn't even feel that there was some foreign body in me. Moreover, it is growing! - the rescued patient is still surprised.
A piece of Artem's lung was placed in a special solution.
- This is a unique specimen! We will study it to confirm the hypothesis of a sprouted spruce bud, says Kamashev. - After such stories and you will think: is it worth breathing deeply?
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