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Figure 33: 4-month-old child with new orbital swelling and fever after sinusitis.

a) Coronal T2w images with fat saturation demonstrate a small hyperintense lesion at the medial aspect of the orbital wall. There are no signs of orbital cellulitis.

b) The lesion appears hyperintense on diffusion-weighted images.

c) and hypointense on the ADC-map, indicating abscess formation. This was confirmed by surgery.