RIGHT ILIAC FOSSA MASS

CLINICAL SPECTRUM

Abstract

Objectives: To determine the frequency and clinical pattern of mass in right
iliac fossa. Study Design: Cross sectional multicenter study. Period: One year (from 03 March
2014 to 02 March 2015). Setting: Patients with right iliac fossa mass of >11 years of and of
either gender admitted in department of surgery at Liaquat university hospital Hyderabad /
Jamshoro and Peoples University Hospital Nawabshah. Patients and methods: The data was
analyzed in SPSS 16 and the frequency and percentage was calculated. Results: During one
year study period, out of 227 patients, 112 subjects were observed to have right iliac fossa mass
due to different etiologies, of which 82(73.2%) were males and 30 (26.8%) were females. The
mean age ±SD for overall population was 39.32±8.66 while it was 37.88±6.75 and 38.93±7.72
in male and female population respectively. The male population was predominant while the
patterns observed were appendicular mass in 19(17%), appendicular abscess in 26(23.21%),
ileocaecal tuberculosis in 38(34%), carcinoma caecum in 14(12.5%), psoas abscess in 5(4.46%)
and others in 10(9%) respectively. Conclusion: The highest incidence of mass in the right iliac
fossa was seen in second, third and four decades with male population predominance. The
common disorders identified were ileocaecal tuberculosis, appendicular mass and abscess
and carcinoma caecum respectively