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Doctors at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, have spotted what looks like the face of a screaming man in an ultrasound of a testicular tumour.
A mystical image or sheer coincidence? Either way, that’s one sad ‘nad.
Doctors in Canada were scanning through ultrasound images of a 45-year-old man with a painful mass in his testicles when they did a doubletake. There was a man's face staring up at them, the mouth grimacing as if he were in agony.
"It looked like a man screaming in pain, which I thought was hilarious considering the clinical picture of the poor guy," Dr. G. Gregory Roberts, School of Medicine at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, told msnbc.com.
Roberts and urologist Dr. Naji J. Touma reported their amazing discovery -- which ranks right up with the grilled cheese Madonna or pancake Jesus -- in a recent issue of the medical journal Urology.
In the article, "The Face of Testicular Pain: A Surprising Ultrasound Finding," the doctors revealed that, upon spotting the distinctive tumor, a "brief debate ensued on whether the image could have been a sign from a deity (perhaps "Min" the Egyptian god of male virility; however, the consensus deemed it a mere coincidental occurrence rather than a divine proclamation."
People have seen holy images in all kinds of random items, but this is certainly a bizarre appearance in a gonad ultrasound.
"Ultrasounds are just a bunch of pixels that occasionally look like recognizable things, such as faces. But I have never seen such a perfect image before," Roberts said.
The article, which reportedly was meant as a little inside joke between urologists known more for helping guys with their erecticle dysfunction and prostate problems than rip-roaring sense of humor, has metastasized -- umm, gone viral.
Touma told the Montreal Gazette that the doctors informed the patient about the image but that he wasn't very interested in the remarkable mirage. "I think the patient was just relieved it wasn't cancer," the newspaper reported.
In the end, the patient opted for an orchiectomy (removal of the testicle) and the tumor was found to be benign.
What's the weirdest image you've ever seen in an unexpected place?
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Great balls of fire
Hehehehehe... Not to rag on a man with cancer...
But now I finally understand what people mean when they call other people dickface...
Nuts!
What's the weirdest image you've ever seen in an unexpected place?
A mans face on the bathroom tile...
An "angel" in the mold on the bathroom ceiling, a statue of Bast (like you see in the museums) in a Barbie doll pulled from a fire...
a gi joe in a barbie house
A black man in the White House
I once saw a mans face in a brickwall, clear as day, I even stopped a couple people and asked them if they noticed anything, and unprompted, they pointed it out... I guess maybe the wall had prostate problems too?
Where was that brick wall, maybe it was Jimmy Hoffa, peering out.
Maybe you were looking for a man so hard, you found his face everywhere you looked.
I once saw Marys face on my testicles.
go home, Joseph, you're drunk...
Mary who?
that was sooo funny!!!!!
Thanks Mary...:)
really now ?!?
:)
i give anesthesia for countless spine procedures. i love the spinal column cross sections on x-ray or MRI that look like alien faces, looking back at the viewer. yup. we ARE the alien, folks.
No, I'm afraid that's the face of Jesus. Shaved His beard so He won't be called a socialist. Cut off His hair so He won't be called an OWS slacker. Crying out in pain after hearing what conservatives are doing in His name, while the homeless remain homeless, the sick remain sick, the hungry remain hungry, and so-called "Christian" millionaires are gnashing their teeth at even the suggestion of a 1% tax hike. Talk about a kick in the balls!
I have no experience with testicles but considering how men treasure theirs, I can understand the agony. NO, NO, NO!!!!!!
"I have no experience with testicles". Sorry to hear that. Let me know if I can be of any assistance.
Awesome, i always wanted a kick a guy in theres, thanks for offering yours Randy.
Susi-Oh That's what are called 'Testy Testies'. His boys are so blue, it's hard to have a ball. I hope that screaming face gets sacked.
For those that can't relate...If you want to try an experiment, take a sandwich bag and place two unshelled walnuts in it. Tape it inside your underpants (if you wear buttfloss, buy a pair of boxers) and re-learn how to sit. Now imagine those walnuts being accompanied by a turtleneck like tube that rests slightly off center on top of them. All that junk in your pants gets covered by hair. Now imagine one of those walnuts is so painful on the inside it makes you sick to your stomach. Poor guy.
@T.f. - good way to explain it.
@T.f. - good way to explain it.
thank goodness it didn't look like jesus, we'd never hear the end of it. it looks look soupy sales.
OMG, it does!! lol!
"....this might be the first time a human face has appeared in an ultrasound."
What about the millions of little baby faces have been seen in ultrasounds for the past however many decades?
Damn! You beat me to it. I thought the same thing
Babies have always been aborted and always will be. Get over it already.
Quinn - what's this got to do with abortion anyways?
Those little faces are really there!
You mean those Aliens?...
Good point, MacLaren, we've seen fetus faces in ultrasound imagery. But Dr. Roberts specified they've never seen such "a perfect image."
I've clarified -- first face in a TESTICLE ultrasound! Does that sound OK?
Jane, That's what I was going to say, not the first FACE on ultra-sound, just the first face on a testicle ultrasound.
Instead of this crap how about you report on the brain and how it is predisposed to see human faces and figures even when there are none to help our survival.
So? What about the millions whatever of baby faces? Is there a point in that, or, only being contentious. Lol, seeing a baby face wouldn't be the novelty.
Cut off balls
lol, its not cancer. Sorry about your balls, bro.
That was my first thought too, and I'm not even a man.
Lots of women have to have ovaries and uterus removed. Too bad, but nobody says sorry about that.
Sorry, Elizabeth.
Just a coincedence.
A wild eyed lady showed me a polaroid of a big tree trunk in her backyard and asked me what I saw in the picture. I could barely discern a triangular black shadow in the bark and I told to the expectant lady that to me it looked like a woman crotch. "Peverted, heretic," she cried. "This (the crotch), is the beard of Jesus Christ!" This goes to say that interpretation is a tricky thing. Every time I look at my genitals in the mirror I see the figure of a bearded sad face with hanging jowls and it pains me the conclusion that the nose in that face should be a bit longer... Outch!
chris
Awww ... so the individual who may or may not of even existed had a beard that looked like a female crotch! That must have gone over big during the projected time frame in that culture ... either that or it explains why there was supposed to be twelve men following him around!
Well duh.
invasion of the body snatchers lol
That's Alah,I've heard he's nuts.So are the people that worship him.
It really helps if you're going to make fun of a religion to at least not make yourself look like an @ss doing it. It's Allah, dingleberry!
Mikey .... Who cares the spelling. A study of that individuals life as recorded by his contemporary subordinates and child wife validates erics statement.
hmmm, pretty wiered .... eerrie
So that is where demons hid out. They could have just called in an exorcist.
But it's not a cyst...it's a tumor.
Why this reporter shows anarticule regarding such image that has been taked in 2009? At least that's what date appears to be. Explain Jane Weaver
Hi, Oky16, You're right the image was taken in 2009, but the doctors only just wrote about it in a recent issue of the Urology medical journal. That's not uncommon for medical journals to publish articles about cases from several years prior -- it's for the purpose of reporting patient outcomes as well as treatment.
And it started going viral only the last day or so, so it's new to the rest of us non-urologists!
Even if it's 2 years old, it's an awesome image, isn't it?
Respect for you, Jane; you could've (probably not in the ethical work sense) had a lot more fun with that one. I can say, since not affiliated, that besides ignorance being proven in the sense you've mentioned, ignorance has been proven (or simplicity) by stating ' an articule regarding such image that has been taked in 2009' as well.
We all have PC's to adhere to at work.... and, I'll say that really; that image does kind of blow away others that have claimed oddity in the past.
" . . . metastAsized . . ."
Cool, no telling what the imagination can bring up. Me now, I think it looks like Jobba the Hut.
Looks like a trapped astronaut. Its David Bowman, and he has a message. (Movie reference)
"It looked like a man screaming in pain, which I thought was hilarious considering the clinical picture of the poor guy," Dr. G. Gregory Roberts told MSNBC.
The poor guy just had his testicle removed! And his urologist thinks its hilarious!
Well, gynecologists also make jokes about their patients too. Yes, it's disgusting: in order to make it through medical school and all those hours of residency, they can't ever have been sick a day in their lives. So they have no idea about the pain and suffering they treat, and a lot of them only care how much money they make. And do you hear any doctors complaining about the proposed Medicare cuts that will make people die a lot younger? I guess they just figure it isn't them, so what do they care? None of them follow the "Hippocratic Oath" to treat all patients and harm none. And did the patient allow this image to be broadcast?
photshop...can't live with it....can't live without it! hahahhah
At least they didn't come up with a picture of the virgin Mary this time. Then again, that's entirely the wrong spot to find it! Let's stick with grilled cheese, windows, and cloud formations from now on guys. Slow news day???