  Virtual radiative corrections due to the long range Coulomb forces of heavy
nuclei with charge Z may lead to sizeable corrections to the Born cross section
usually used for lepton-nucleus scattering processes. An introduction and
presentation of the most important issues of the eikonal approximation is
given. We present calculations for forward electroproduction production of rho
mesons in a framework suggested by the VDM (vector dominance model), using the
eikonal approximation. It turns out that Coulomb corrections may become
relatively large. Some minor errors in the literature are corrected.
