#rads

[zangerdanger]

RADSCHU ⚡

[teachingrounds]

Q. We interrupt this week of posts on bone metastases to ask, "Where did this lung metastasis come from?"

A. Statistically speaking it is most likely to be a carcinoma (colon, kidney, breast, testicle, thyroid), a sarcoma (bone), or melanoma. However, if it is a peripheral interstitial abnormality described as lymphangitic, it is more likely to be an adenocarcinoma (lung, breast, GI), melanoma, or lymphoma/leukemia.

Pro-Tip #1: Endobronchial mets are classically from renal cell carcinoma.

Pro-Tip #2: A miliary pattern should make you think of metastasized non-small cell carcinoma of the lung.

[fakeosphere]

do you ever stop for a moment to think about how weird and fucked up it sounds to say "i love womyn" or whatever but then just whip around and say "yeah trans women aren't real women and caring about them detracts from ~real~ women". like replace trans with black, i dare you terfs, and see how fucked up it sounds

[borzoilover69]

sketch v final.. sometimes you really do ahve to trust the process. ive been using this tip from @lvlcmxcix for my colours and hoooly fuck it really works. so vibrant

[zot3-flopped]

https://www.tumblr.com/silverfoxlou/777058099905314816/could-i-have-some-blog-recs-please?source=share

Silver Creep has definitely fallen out with Sea Monster. She was asked to recommend Rat blogs and listed everyone EXCEPT Sea.

Hilarious! Silver Creep is very attached to the gross Bottom Louis thing.

[chroniclesofachemist]

[hands0mejack]

Yesterday was the 38th anniversary of the tragedy at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Due to supervisor negligence during a routine test, Reactor 4 was unable to cool properly. [Too many cooling rods were removed and no one noticed] This resulted in steam explosions and ultimately a full meltdown. Of the 6,000 plant workers: 2 people lost their lives in the initial explosion, 237 were hospitalized (134 exhibited acute ARS and 28 died) and 100,000~ people had to evacuate their homes never to return. It will take years for the radioactive isotopes to decay. Projected cleanup year is 2065.

Before the Ukraine-Russia war, people were able to tour the city, staying well away from the 1,000 sq mi exclusion zone around the plant.

The most fascinating thing (to me) is the Elephants Foot. Its a large mass of radioactive and man-made materials that formed after the meltdown. The material flowed 49 ft to the southeast of the reactor and 20 ft below ground level. It melted through 6.6 ft of reinforced concrete before settling in the back of room 217/2.

Radioactivity near the Elephants Foot was approximately 80 to 100 grays per hour, delivering a 50/50 lethal dose of radiation (4.5 grays) within five minutes. Between May and November 1986, a shelter (the "Sarcophagus") was constructed to help seal the radioactive materials inside Reactor Number 4.

In 1996, Radiation Specialist Artur Korneyev took several photographs of the Elephants Foot. Some call him the most radioactive man in the world. Artur took up close photos of the mass and produced a very famous "selfie" seen below. The grainy effect is due to the high levels of radiation.

His current status is unknown, but in a 2016 interview he said he was working on construction of a $1.5 billion arch that, when finished in 2017, will cap the decaying sarcophagus and prevent airborne isotopes from escaping. In his mid 60s, he was sickly, with cataracts, and had been barred from re-entering the sarcophagus after years of irradiation.

Pictured below:

☆ Artur Korneyev with the Elephants Foot 1996

☆ View of the city of Pripyat with Chernobyl in the background 2009

☆ The "Sarcophagus" + a picture of the destroyed reactor right after the accident

☆ The "Red Forest" around Pripyat 2009

☆ A piglet with Dipygus at the Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum

☆ Map of radiation levels around Chernobyl in 1996

☆ Radiation exposure to first responders at Chernobyl in comparison to a range of situations