RIGHT ILIAC FOSSA MASS

Objectives: To determine the frequency and clinical pattern of mass in rightiliac fossa. Study Design: Cross sectional multicenter study. Period: One year (from 03 March2014 to 02 March 2015). Setting: Patients with right iliac fossa mass of >11 years of and ofeither gender admitted in department of surgery at Liaquat university hospital Hyderabad /Jamshoro and Peoples University Hospital Nawabshah. Patients and methods: The data wasanalyzed in SPSS 16 and the frequency and percentage was calculated. Results: During oneyear study period, out of 227 patients, 112 subjects were observed to have right iliac fossa massdue to different etiologies, of which 82(73.2%) were males and 30 (26.8%) were females. Themean age ±SD for overall population was 39.32±8.66 while it was 37.88±6.75 and 38.93±7.72in male and female population respectively. The male population was predominant while thepatterns 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 iliacfossa was seen in second, third and four decades with male population predominance. Thecommon disorders identified were ileocaecal tuberculosis, appendicular mass and abscessand carcinoma caecum respectively