Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Image copyright BMJ Image caption The patient reported he regularly played with and even inhaled the toy pieces during his childhood 
  
 Doctors removed a toy traffic cone from a patient's lung - 40 years after he inhaled it by accident. 
  
 The 47-year-old man, from Preston, was referred to a respiratory clinic after having a cough for over a year. 
  
 Medics suspected the patient - a long-term smoker - had a tumour when scans showed something on his lung. 
  
 However, when they removed the mass they discovered it was the "long lost Playmobil traffic cone" he had received on his seventh birthday. 
  
 A report in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) said the postman told doctors he "regularly played with and even swallowed" the toy pieces during his childhood. 
  
 But, on one occasion, he believes he inhaled a tiny plastic traffic cone. 
  
 He did not report any ill-effects for decades, doctors said, until the persistent cough which caused him to seek medical advice. 
  
 Because the man was so young when he inhaled the toy, the report said, his airway may have been able to remodel and adapt to the presence of a foreign body. 
  
 It was not unusual for children to ingest or inhale small toys, it said, but "a case in which the onset of symptoms occurs so long after initial aspiration is unheard of". 
  
 Image copyright BMJ Image caption X-rays taken after the cone was removed showed an improvement in the patient's lungs 
  
 Four months after the removal of the tiny traffic cone, the patient's cough had almost gone and his symptoms had improved markedly, the report said. ||||| Medics find long-lost Playmobil plastic traffic cone inside lung of 47-year-old man who had suffered from persistent cough 
  
 A toy traffic cone has been found in the lung of a man 40 years after he inhaled it. 
  
 It was originally thought that the unnamed 47-year-old man from Preston might have cancer. 
  
 He was referred to a respiratory clinic after complaining of coughing up yellow mucus and feeling unwell for over a year. 
  
 Medics initially thought the patient, who had also recently suffered pneumonia and had been a long-term smoker, had a tumour after an x-ray showed a mass in a lung. 
  
 However during a bronchoscopy, which was carried out to help aid diagnosis, they realised it was a “long-lost Playmobil traffic cone” the patient had received on his seventh birthday. 
  
  
  
 The miniature plastic cone, about 1cm in length, was removed with biopsy forceps. 
  
 Doctors writing in BMJ Case Reports said: “Following the procedure, the patient reported that he regularly played with and even swallowed pieces of Playmobil during his childhood. 
  
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Playmobil figures. The man reported that he played with and even swallowed pieces of Playmobil during his childhood. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian 
  
 “He recalled being given this Playmobil set for his seventh birthday and believes he aspirated the toy traffic cone soon after.” 
  
 While it is a common occurrence for children to accidentally inhale small objects, “a case in which the onset of symptoms occurs so long after initial aspiration is unheard of”. 
  
 The doctors said that to their knowledge, it was the first reported case of a tracheobronchial foreign body that was overlooked for 40 years. 
  
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 “This may be because aspiration occurred at such a young age that the patient’s airway was able to remodel and adapt to the presence of this foreign body,” the report said. 
  
 They added that during childhood, the object may have been absorbed into the lining of the lung, which developed around it. 
  
  
  
 Four months after the removal of the tiny traffic cone, the patient’s cough had nearly cleared and his other symptoms had markedly improved. 
  
 The medics said: “On a positive note, his symptoms improved markedly and he finally found his long-lost Playmobil traffic cone in the very last place he would look.” |||||
A:
For more than a year, he had a nagging cough. Finally, the 47-year-old from the UK went to a clinic—and got the surprise of his life. The BBC reports that X-rays showed a spot on the man's lung, but it wasn't a tumor. It was a "long lost" toy traffic cone that had disappeared many decades earlier. Part of a Playmobil set he got for his seventh birthday, the cone (less than a half-inch in length) had been inhaled by the youngster, then lodged in his lung, per the Guardian. The mailman "reported that he regularly played with and even swallowed pieces of Playmobil during his childhood," doctors wrote in BMJ Case Reports. While it's not uncommon for children to ingest small toys, doctors say it's the first time they've heard of one going undetected for so long. They speculate that because the man inhaled the cone so young, his airway "was able to remodel and adapt to the presence of this foreign body." It was eventually absorbed into the lung lining, where it remained undetected until last year, when the man, a long-term smoker, began coughing and spitting up yellow mucus. Doctors extracted the cone with biopsy forceps, and since then, the patient has had few problems. "On a positive note," they wrote, "his symptoms improved markedly and he finally found his long-lost Playmobil traffic cone in the very last place he would look." (A man sneezed out a toy wedged up his nose for 44 years.)