In simple words: This refers to a type of hernia in the belly area where the intestines are getting squeezed but not so badly that the tissue is dying.

This code represents a hernia located in the abdomen, at a site not otherwise specified, that is causing an obstruction of the bowel, but without the presence of gangrene (tissue death). It encompasses other specified incarcerated, irreducible, or strangulated abdominal hernias.

Example 1: A 50-year-old male presents to the ER with abdominal pain and vomiting. A CT scan reveals an obturator hernia causing a small bowel obstruction, without any signs of gangrene. The patient is admitted for surgical repair., A 70-year-old female with a history of lumbar hernia presents to her physician with increasing abdominal distension and constipation.Examination confirms the hernia is incarcerated and causing an obstruction.She undergoes surgery to repair the hernia., A 30-year-old male experiences sudden onset abdominal pain after heavy lifting. Imaging reveals a strangulated retroperitoneal hernia, leading to bowel obstruction. There's no evidence of gangrene, and the patient undergoes emergency surgery.

Documentation should include: location and type of hernia, presence and degree of obstruction, presence or absence of gangrene, associated symptoms (e.g., pain, vomiting, distention), imaging findings, and treatment plan.

** Excludes2: certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96), certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99), complications of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium (O00-O9A), congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99), endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88), injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), neoplasms (C00-D49), symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94).