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Purpose. To present the case of a 22-year-old man with a history of trauma on the right eye, followed by a sudden decrease of visual acuity on the left eye, but with a good recovery after surgical treatment. Material and methods. We reported a case of a 22-year-old patient with a sudden and painless decrease of visual acuity on the left eye, a month after a car accident, which led to the laceration of the right globe. At first, the patient received only medical treatment because he refused any surgical intervention. He had a favorable evolution during hospitalization, but he returned after a month with the same visual acuity as at his first admission. The patient accepted the medical treatment and the enucleation of the right eye, thus having a fast improvement in his visual acuity on the left eye. Conclusions. Although the enucleation was overdue, it had a strong favorable influence on the evolution of the disease. As a result of the surgery, the visual acuity has improved significantly in just a few days. Abbreviations: OCT = optical coherence tomography.