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This paper aims to present the case of an 11-year-old boy with a macular hole following a ball injury. The child reported deterioration of visual acuity. Ophthalmic examination, ocular ultrasound, optical coherence tomography (OCT), perimetry, and a pattern visual evoked potential (VEP) test were performed. On the day of injury, the visual acuity of the right eye was 0.04 and intraocular pressure was 28 mmHg; the eyelid skin was reddened, and superficial conjunctival injection was observed. A fundus examination revealed oedema, pre-retinal haemorrhages, and a macular hole; peripheral retinal oedema in the superior temporal quadrant with pre-retinal haemorrhages was also seen. At the follow-up appointment scheduled 5 months following hospital discharge, visual acuity of the right eye was 0.3 and intraocular pressure was 20 mmHg. Follow-up OCT images of the OD macula were comparable to the findings obtained on the day of hospital discharge, i.e., 10 days after blunt trauma to the right eye. 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