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Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Right iliac fossa (RIF) Abdominal Pain
Gastrointestinal: appendicitis, mesenteric adenitis (Yersinia, in children), Meckel's diverticulum (in children), inflammatory bowel disease, colonic cancer, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome
Pain from adjacent areas: suprapubic, central abdominal pain, groin pain, hip pathology, psoas abscess, rectus sheath haematoma, right-sided lobar pneumonia
Renal: UTI, ureteric colic (renal stones)
Reproductive: Females: Mittelschmerz (ovulation), ovarian cyst tortion/rupture/ haemorrhage, ectopic pregnancy, salpingitis/pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis. Males: seminal vesiculitis, cancer in undescended testis
Gastrointestinal: appendicitis, mesenteric adenitis (Yersinia, in children), Meckel's diverticulum (in children), inflammatory bowel disease, colonic cancer, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome
Pain from adjacent areas: suprapubic, central abdominal pain, groin pain, hip pathology, psoas abscess, rectus sheath haematoma, right-sided lobar pneumonia
Renal: UTI, ureteric colic (renal stones)
Reproductive: Females: Mittelschmerz (ovulation), ovarian cyst tortion/rupture/ haemorrhage, ectopic pregnancy, salpingitis/pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis. Males: seminal vesiculitis, cancer in undescended testis
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