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Doctors find ‘hard mass’ of lenses stuck together in 67-year-old’s eye during routine cataract surgeryA 67-year-old woman has had 27 contact lenses removed from one eye.The discovery was made after the woman went to Solihull hospital in the West Midlands for routine cataract surgery.In a report for the British Medical Journal (BMJ), experts from the hospital said “a bluish foreign body” emerged during the procedure “as a hard mass of 17 contact lenses bound together by mucus”.Ten more were found under further examination.The experts wrote: “The patient had worn monthly disposable lenses for 35 years. She had poorer vision in the right eye and deep-set eyes, which might have contributed to the unusually large number of retained foreign bodies.”Rupal Morjaria, a specialist trainee in ophthalmology, told Optometry Today: “None of us have ever seen this before.“It was such a large mass. All the 17 contact lenses were stuck together.“We were really surprised that the patient didn’t notice it because it would cause quite a lot of irritation while it was sitting there.“She was quite shocked. She thought her previous discomfort was just part of old age and dry eye.”