The Board has denied an increased rating for the veteran's service-connected healed fracture of the left thumb, but remanded to obtain additional medical evidence and consider all applicable diagnostic codes.
The deciding factor: Additional medical examination is needed to determine the current extent and severity of the veteran's left thumb disability in order to properly evaluate his claim under relevant VA rating criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- healed fracture of the left thumb
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 8, 2001
- Citation
- 0113086
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
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- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities are found to be of such severity so as to preclude substantially gainful employment, warranting a TDIU.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeals on all issues related to the service-connected conditions of healed fracture of the left thumb, compression fracture of L2 and L3 with low back strain and lumbarization of S1 vertebra, and left knee strain prior to the Board's decision.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted a 10 percent evaluation for the veteran's healed fracture of the left thumb, effective from February 18, 1999.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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