CLINICAL PROFILE OF RIGHT ILIAC FOSSA LESIONS AND ITS MANAGEMENT

A hospital based prospective study was done with 50 patients to evaluate right iliac fossa lesions. Aim of the study is to study the clinical profile and various causes of right iliac fossa lesions. The most common disease in our study was appendicular mass (40%) followed by appendicular abscess (30%), iliopsoas abscess (10%), Ileocaecal tuberculosis (8%) and carcinoma cecum (6%). There was 1 case each of right undescended testis with malignant change, right ectopic kidney and Non-Hodgkin‘s lymphoma of ileum, each of these cases accounting for 2% of the total cases in our study. All patients having right iliac fossa lesions either clinically or on Ultrasonography of the abdomen. The appendicular pathology accounted for 70% of all causes of right iliac fossa mass in this study.