title: An embedded contact lens in the upper lid masquerading as a mass.
abstract: A patient who "lost" his right contact lens three years prior to our examination was found to have a mass in the right upper lid which contained the hard contact lens. A careful search of the superior fornix and the upper lid, with double eversion of the lids, is indicated in instances where a patient presents reporting loss of a lens he was wearing or inserting.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003261:Contact Lenses / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male