The Mail on Sunday

WEIRD SCIENCE

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DOCTORS in Newcastle operated on a ‘cyst’ beside a 42-year-old woman’s left eye – only to discover it was caused by a contact lens that had become lodged there 28 years earlier.

She visited the doctor after noticing a lump close to the bridge of her nose. An MRI scan showed a pocket of fluid behind her left eye, and she was booked in for surgery to remedy it.

Surgeons found a hard lens of a type she hadn’t worn in decades. Later, her mother recalled that she’d been hit in the eye with a badminton shuttlecoc­k aged 14.

At the time she was wearing lenses – and assumed one had fallen out.

‘We can infer that the lens migrated into the patient’s left upper eyelid at the time of trauma and had been in situ for the last 28 years,’ a case report stated.

The patient also suffered drooping in her eyelid, which doctors assumed was also caused by the lens.

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