Man's suspected cancer tumor turns out to be toy he inhaled 40 years ago

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A 47-year-old British man suspected of having lung cancer received some good — but certainly unexpected — news after doctors performed a procedure to investigate a mass in his lung.

The patient, whose name was not released, was a long-term smoker and suffered a cough for more than a year.

But during a bronchoscopy, his doctors didn't detect any signs of cancer. Instead, they found a tiny Playmobil plastic traffic cone lodged in the man's airways — leading to a diagnosis called tracheobronchial foreign body (TFB) aspiration.

read more https://www.cbsnews.com/news/suspected-cancer-tumor-turns-out-to-be-toy-man-inhaled-40-years-ago/
 

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