Original MICA image-reading exercise, unscored. No clinical narrative absent from the source is added.
- Describe visible findings before proposing an interpretation.
- Suggest an interpretation and at least one image limitation.
- Which clinical findings or investigations would complement this observation?
Reveal the explained reading
MRI: IgG4-related orbital involvement
- Document
- Authentic MRI
- Focus
- MRI: IgG4-related orbital involvement
- Limitation
- Signal intensity cannot be compared across different sequences.
Morphological description
Arrows mark muscular and lacrimal abnormalities.
Context and interpretation
The source concludes IgG4-related orbitopathy.
Differential diagnoses
MRI alone cannot distinguish every inflammation from tumour.
Pitfalls and limitations
Signal intensity cannot be compared across different sequences.
Take-home message
Describe structures before naming the disease.
Sources
Documentary review: 2026-10-14
Media source & rights
- Author
- Erdei, Annamaria; Steiber, Zita; Molnar, Csaba; Berenyi, Ervin; Nagy, Endre V.
- Original source
- Erdei, Annamaria; Steiber, Zita; Molnar, Csaba; Berenyi, Ervin; Nagy, Endre V. · Exophthalmos in a young woman with no Graves’ disease – a case report of IgG4-related orbitopathy · CC BY 4.0
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Changes
- Complete original figure retained; WebP conversion and proportional resizing only. No clinical signs added or altered.
- Dimensions
- 685 × 228 px
- Check
- 2026-10-14