These images show the lungs 2 weeks before the cone's removal and 4 months after. Photo Courtesy of the British Medical Journal . From then onward the toy went undetected in the lungs.

The Playmobil toy cone had gone undetected in the man’s right lung for 40 years and was found almost three years ago by Dr. Mohammed Munavvar at the Royal Preston Hospital in the UK, according ...

Paul Baxter had some unexpected help retelling how a toy traffic cone was stuck in his lung for 40 years. He inhaled it by accident as a child. Decades later, it was finally removed by doctors ...

The toy turned out to be a part of a set the individual had received — and shortly after, accidentally inhaled — 40 years earlier, according to the case, published Sept. 22 in the journal BMJ ...

For more than a year, he had felt ill, inexplicably coughing up phlegm. The British postal worker, a former smoker, had already been treated for pneumonia, but now doctors suspected it might be muc… ...

Doctors removed a tiny toy traffic cone from an adult patient’s lung after it was believed to be a tumor. The 47-year-old man inhaled the small toy as a child about 40 years ago when he received ...

The toy was ingested by the man as a toddler and his case remains a mystery since it didn't cause symptoms for so long. Sometimes ailments which may look harmless can turn out to be more serious ...

Toy cone inhaler upstaged by traffic cone Close Paul Baxter had some unexpected help retelling how a toy traffic cone was stuck in his lung for 40 years. He inhaled it by accident as a child.