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A 16-year-old male Taekwondo player was admitted with a 1-day history of right groin pain and a palpable mass in the right lower abdominal quadrant following a Taekwondo training session. No history of direct trauma was given, but the pain followed a high inward-tooutward kick. The patient was not on any medication, and tumour and infection were excluded. A high-resolution real-time ultrasound scan identified a well-defined, hyperechoic, heterogeneous mass in the substance of the right iliopsoas muscle, compatible with a collection of partially clotted blood, confirming the clinical diagnosis of iliopsoas haematoma. After conservative treatment the patient resumed training and is now fully asymptomatic.
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Maffulli, N., So, W.S., Ahuja, A. et al. Iliopsoas haematoma in an adolescent Taekwondo player. Knee Surg, Sports traumatol, Arthroscopy 3, 230–233 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01466623
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