The veteran's claim for increased rating and service connection is being remanded due to incomplete development of the record, including a need for VA examinations.
The deciding factor: Incomplete medical records and lack of adequate examination reports are identified as reasons for remanding the case.
- Claimed conditions
- postoperative vagotomy and pyloroplasty with hiatal hernia, nocturia, kidney cyst
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 13, 2000
- Citation
- 0001183
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
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- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinnitus, denied service connection for nocturia and erectile dysfunction, and remanded the claim for bilateral hearing loss.
- Granted
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