Pea sprouts inside man's lung

老翁誤吃豆肺部發豆芽

75-year-old Ron Sveden from Massachusetts, who is racked with emphysema, went to the hospital after his health deteriorated. He thought he had lung cancer, but X-rays revealed that it was a plant sprouting inside his windpipe. It seems Sveden had been eating peas, and one went down the wrong pipe, then sprouted in his lung. The plant was about half an inch in size. Through surgery they removed the plant and Sveden's health improved, BBC News reported.

據英國廣播公司報道，美國馬薩諸塞州患有肺氣腫的老人羅恩·斯維登因病情惡化前往醫院治療。75歲的斯維登本以為自己患上肺癌，而X光檢查結果卻顯示，他的癥結并非癌癥而是氣管里長出的一顆豌豆芽。醫生推測斯維登在吃豌豆時，不慎將一粒豌豆嗆到了氣管中，并在肺部發芽，現已長至半英寸。醫生通過手術取出了這顆豌豆芽，羅恩的身體狀況已逐漸好轉。

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