Contact lens lost in eyelid for nearly 30 years

The rigid gas permeable (RGP) contact lens had been lost in the 42-year-old’s upper left eyelid ever since she had been hit in the eye with a shuttlecock during a game of badminton when she was just 14.According to Live Science, the patient had initially sought medical attention for a swollen and drooping eyelid that had been bothering her for six months, which resulted in an MRI that revealed a “well-defined” cyst measuring 8x4x6 millimetres.{{image2-a:r-w:400}}However, after it was surgically roved, the cyst broke open and revealed the long-missing contact lens.At first, the patient could not recall how it got there, but her mother rbered the badminton incident when the contact lens was lost and was also able to confirm that the woman had not worn hard contact lenses since.The doctors suspected that the contact lens could have migrated into the patient’s eyelid at the time of trauma and stayed there where it got encapsulated with soft tissue.What baffled the doctors, though, was that the inflammation and swelling only materialised almost three decades after the incident and without any apparent “elicited triggers” that could have caused the symptoms to start.The report was originally published in BMJ Case Reports.