Surgeons find 27 contact lenses in eye – woman thought they had fallen out

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Surgeons find 27 contact lenses in eye – woman thought they had fallen out

Two multiple-year studies of CooperVision contact lenses have been unveiled at a recent symposium. Image: Atlas/stock.adobe.comA routine cataract surgery in the UK turned into a bizarre discovery when doctors found a mass of contact lenses lodged under a woman’s right upper eyelid. According a report in the Royal Examiner, what initially appeared to be a single lens turned out to be a cluster of 17 lenses fused together by mucus. Upon further in…