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2013 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 787.99
Other symptoms involving digestive system
- Painful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces; associated with irritable bowel syndrome.
- ICD-9-CM 787.99 is a billable medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
787.99 Alternative Terminology
- Abnormal defecation
- Abnormal excretory function
- Abnormal gastric electrical activity
- Abnormal small bowel motility
- Absent excretory function
- Alteration in bowel elimination
- Altered bowel function
- Bile pigment regurgitation
- Bile pigment retention
- Change in stool caliber
- Cholesterol crystal nucleation in bile
- Constipation alternates with diarrhea
- Decreased excretory function
- Decreased frequency of defecation
- Decreased peristalsis
- Defecation reflex abnormal - constipated
- Deranged intestinal motility
- Descending perineum syndrome
- Digestive gland sign or symptom
- Digestive symptom
- Discharge from anus
- Erosion of esophageal tumor into bronchus
- Erosion of esophageal tumor into trachea
- Excessive fluid in stomach
- Frequent defecation
- Gagging
- Gastrointestinal sensation altered
- Incomplete passage of stool
- Increased digestive peristalsis
- Increased excretory function
- Increased frequency of defecation
- Increased gastric electrical activity
- Increased gastric tonus
- Increased intestinal motility
- Increased large bowel motility
- Increased small bowel motility
- Infrequent bowel action
- Ischiorectal lump
- Lacking desire for stool
- Liver firm
- Liver problem
- Liver soft
- Liver tender
- Loss of awareness of need for stool
- Murphy's sign
- Nodule of liver
- On examination - dry tongue
- On examination - per rectum - rectal mass
- Pain associated with defecation
- Painful straining for stool
- Pressure indents rectal mass
- Pus in vomit o/e
- Rectal discharge
- Rectal mass
- Rectal symptoms
- Rectal tenesmus
- Reflux
- Regurgitates food
- Regurgitation
- Regurgitation of food
- Small bowel peristaltic rush
- Soft stool
- Soiling symptom
- Straining at stool
- Swallows quickly
- Tenderness of digestive structure
- Tenesmus
- Tenesmus - anal
- Tenesmus present
- Unable to distinguish stool and flatus
- Urgent desire for stool
- Weak anal sphincter
Applies To
- Change in bowel habits
- Tenesmus (rectal)
Convert 787.99 to ICD-10-CM 

ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 787.99:
- Change(s) (of) - see also Removal of
bowel habits 787.99
- Discharge
anal NEC 787.99
- Impaired, impairment (function)
rectal sphincter 787.99
- Mass
anus 787.99
rectum 787.99
- Neuralgia, neuralgic (acute) (see also Neuritis) 729.2

anus 787.99
rectum 787.99
- Swelling 782.3

anus 787.99
rectum 787.99
- Symptoms, specified (general) NEC 780.99

digestive system NEC 787.99
gastrointestinal tract NEC 787.99
- Tenesmus 787.99
rectal 787.99
vesical 788.99
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