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.

Just contented children - and a wealth of pine cone-themed ornaments. Now that Swiss cold-snaps have been replaced by Singaporean monsoons, I'm grateful I didn't leave all the toys behind.

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 ...

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… ...

Just contented children - and a wealth of pine cone-themed ornaments. Now that Swiss cold-snaps have been replaced by Singaporean monsoons, I'm grateful I didn't leave all the toys behind.

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 ...