Treatment of corneal rust rings with desferrioxamine.

The two patients with remaining rust and symptoms had the rust surgically removed and became symptom-free. In the last group, one patient complained of continued irritation in the eye for which no cause could be found. The other two patients developed corneal ulceration in the area of the original foreign body; although at this time there was no remaining rust, there was a heavy flare and cells in the aqueous. Both were treated with gutt. atropine i per cent., an antibiotic ointment, and padding. The ulceration healed in both cases within 3 days.