A 62-year-old woman was seen for a 3-year history of a painful lesion in the left lateral thigh. The examination showed a hard, tender, moveable subcutaneous mass that could be a foreign body or osteoma cutis. She was scheduled to have it removed.

Two weeks later, the tissue around the hard mass on the left thigh was excised and the mass turned out to be a shard of glass!

The patient, chuckling heartily, recalled that decades back she returned home in the wee morning hours to find all the doors locked. As she furtively climbed in her bedroom window, the glass shattered leaving a gash in medial aspect of the thigh. The area healed uneventfully. Over the ensuing years an unappreciated shard of glass must have migrated to the lateral thigh.

Patient, surgeon and medical assistant were all convulsed in stitches… Do more surprises lie in store for this woman?