An eyelid tumor caused by a migrated hard contact lens.
An enlarging eyelid mass was removed and found to be a fibrocollagenous tumor surrounding a hard contact lens which had apparently migrated from the upper fornix, where it had been lost. A review of the literature revealed that formation of such a tumor around a migrated contact lens is unusual but that migration of hard contact lenses through the conjunctiva of the upper fornix is not as rare as is generally believed.
D000368:Aged; D003094:Collagen; D003261:Contact Lenses / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans
D003094:Collagen