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LEFT ILIAC FOSSA PAIN - MYSTERY UNVEILED - EPIPLOIC APPENDAGITIS

ARANYA S

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32 year old gentleman presented with abdominal pain and mass in left iliac fossa and was diagnosed as  diverticulitis of sigmoid colon.On further evaluation it was found as epiploic appendagitis of descendosigmoid   junction. Laproscopic excision of the inflamed appendices epiploicae was done.

 


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