In what may be among the strangest medical diagnoses of the year, a British man was told that he did not have lung cancer tumor, but instead had swallowed a plastic toy cone 40 years earlier.

Toy cone inhaler upstaged by traffic cone 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.

When doctors performed surgery on a man to remove what they suspected to be a bronchogenic carcinoma, they instead found a toy traffic cone he swallowed in the 1970s.

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It was, in fact, a tiny toy traffic cone from a Playmobil set that Baxter had apparently aspirated more than four decades earlier. “Everybody just fell about laughing,” Baxter said told BBC News.

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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.

Paul Baxter gets some unexpected help retelling how a toy cone was stuck in his lung for 40 years.