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This paper will present a case of a postmenopausal female patient who presented to our outpatient surgical clinic complaining of a right groin mass for 3\u00a0months. She was clinically diagnosed as a case of an irreducible inguinal hernia. After investigations, it turned out to be a round ligament leiomyoma, confirmed by the histopathological examination. There are broad differential diagnoses of inguinal masses. 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