Man’s lung tumor turns out to be a toy he swallowed 40 years ago

[Sieg67]

https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/health/toy-in-mans-lungs-for-40-years/index.html


In case you're wondering how it do in there.
"The patient underwent surgery, and only after removing the mass was it identified as a Playmobil toy cone that “had been absorbed into the mucosal lining of the bronchial (air passage) which developed around it,” explained the case report."

Edited February 16 by Sieg67

[Top Gun]

 

[André Toulon]

And the mystery of how shit knows to go to your stomach or lungs still lingers

Edited February 16 by André Toulon

[Sieg67]

If only science could explain that.

[1pooh4u]

How did he not choke at the time? 😮

[Sieg67]

It's pretty small.  I can see how the cone didn't choke him but I find it weird that the lung wasn't trying to constantly purge it.

[katt_goddess]

1 hour ago, Sieg67 said:

It's pretty small.  I can see how the cone didn't choke him but I find it weird that the lung wasn't trying to constantly purge it.

Anything that can't get broken down and absorbed gets cocooned to cut down on edges.

He probably had a really bad bout of the 'flu' with lung congestion back when it happened because the lungs were trying to lube it up but those lung flaps aren't exactly built to let out large particulates.