Long-term dislocation of a hard contact lens.
A 48-year-old female was fitted with hard contact lenses and lost the right lens the next day. She was asymptomatic for 62 months but then presented with a painful mass in the right superonasal orbital quadrant. Surgical exploration was non-diagnostic. Five months later the contact lens was found in the right upper fornix. This case emphasizes the importance of a thorough ocular examination, including double eversion of the lids and sweeping the fornices of patients with unidentified periocular masses or pain.
D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003261:Contact Lenses; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography