Abstract
Mass in right iliac fossa is one of the most common condition seen in surgical practice which has various differential diagnosis with most of them being curable. The objective of the study is to identify various diseases which can present with mass in right iliac fossa . This is a study conducted on patients having mass in right iliac fossa admitted in Shadan hospital over a period of two years. 60 patients(30 male and 30 female) with the provisional diagnosis of right iliac fossa mass was included in the inclusion criteria and patients with masses arising from parietal wall, children below 10 years of age, pregnancy and any bony swelling in the region were excluded after radiological assessment. Most of the right iliac fossa masses seen were of appendicular pathology followed by ileocaecal tuberculosis. 70% of the cases were related to appendicular pathology either appendicular mass or abscess, ileocaecal tuberculosis 16.6% and amoebic typhlitis the least .
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