“…There is the potential for this to communicate with the joint capsule and become distended in the presence of a hip joint effusion or synovial proliferation [16] . Moreover, several case reports have described ganglion or synovial cysts arising from this location resulting in obturator nerve entrapment [ [17] , [18] , [19] – 20 ]. The lesion in our patient was fully excised with clear pathological margins without breaching the hip joint capsule which confirmed that this lesion was external to the capsule and not intra-articular.…”