[An unusual clinical variant of pubic pain in females: the case of an athlete].

Gynaecological types of pain in high-powered sportswomen can be of traumatic origin (bony, muscular or cartilaginous) in the region around the pubis. A case of vaginal pain which proved to be due to adductor tendinitis in the hip in a long distance walker is described. A review of the differential diagnosis of gynaecological pain that can occur in sportswomen is carried out. These consist of instability in the symphysis of the pubis as well as muscular lesions of the abdominal muscles of the hip adductors and of the ilio-psoas muscles. In addition, stress fractures of the pubic rami as well as inflammation of the symphysis due to stress, and pubic osteomyelitis are described.