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Figure 17: Case report 14a. 7-year-old boy with swelling of the right upper lid for 2 weeks. CT (left): The coronal reconstruction of the orbit shows the thinned right lamina papyracea (figure courtesy of Prof. Hans Henkes, Department of Neuroradiology, Klinikum Stuttgart, Germany). MRI (right): The coronal STIR sequence shows an intracranial supraorbital abscess (arrows) that, even retrospectively, cannot be seen in the CT scan without contrast agent application.