A man's Suspected "lung tumor" turns out to be a Playmobil traffic cone inhaled as child

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Who knew your favorite childhood toy could endanger your life? A 47-year-old man from Preston recently found out that the source of his chesty cough was not lung cancer, but a tiny toy traffic cone inhaled 40 years earlier.

Due to the fact that, he was a long-term smoker and had only recently recovered from a bout of pneumonia, doctores thought his symptoms were the result of "lung Tumor"

According to A report from British Medical Journal,Scans did reveal a suspicious mass in the lung, but it was not until doctors took it out from his longs during a flexible bronchoscopy, Surprisingly it was just a Playmobil traffic cone .

But the good news is the man is still alive and healthy.