The value of slit lamp examination of the eyes

Jung (Brit. Journ. Of ophth. 1928 May) notes the importance of slit lamp examination of eyes at risk of sympathetic inflammation. As you know, it is very difficult to decide to remove a traumatized eye if it can still see. Removal of it when obvious sympathetic inflammation has already begun in another is belated, ineffectual. A slit lamp can detect in the 2nd eye such early precursors of future sympathetic inflammation (exudates, precipitates), when it is still possible to save it by enucleation of the first, traumatized. In this case, this operation should be done immediately, despite the preservation of his vision. The author gives his observations.