Eyelash in Pterygium and under Conjunctiva: Two Rare Cases

Two cases with an eyelash in pterygium and conjunctiva were presented in this work. A 76-year-old woman presented with bilateral ocular irritation, itching, and visual loss without any history of trauma or ocular surgery. On slit lamp examination, there was a pterygium closing the visual axis of the right eye. Careful slit lamp examination revealed also an eyelash in the pterygium in the right eye. A 36-year-old woman presented with complaints of redness, and itching in her right eye. She had undergone a penetrating keratoplasty on the right eye one year ago. On slit lamp examination, an eyelash was seen that had a 3 mm portion of it under the conjunctiva. The other portion of the eyelash was lying on the conjunctiva extending to the limbus. A broken lash may rarely be seen under conjunctiva or even the pterygium probably due to predisposing conjunctival disorders even without any history of trauma or surgery.