The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient evidence regarding whether Paget's disease developed during service or is related to any bone infection experienced in service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner needs to provide a medical opinion on whether the veteran's current Paget's disease had its onset in service or is attributable to a bone infection during service.
- Claimed conditions
- Paget's disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 19, 2004
- Citation
- 0404669
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board grants service connection for Paget's disease, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for residuals of a right thumb injury, Paget's disease, hypertension, erectile dysfunction (secondary to hypertension), and kidney disease (secondary to hypertension) as there was no evidence that any of these conditions began during active service or were otherwise related to an in-service injury or disease.
- Dismissed
The veteran withdrew his appeal for service connection for lumbar spine degenerative arthritis and Paget's disease.
- Denied
The claims for service connection for various conditions have been denied as new and relevant evidence was not submitted.
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