The Board denied the veteran's claims for a permanent and total rating for pension purposes and an original compensable evaluation for her neck scar. The evidence did not meet the criteria for a compensable evaluation under either the old or new diagnostic codes.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the veteran's neck scar was well healed, superficial, and without any characteristics of disfigurement or other disabling features.
- Claimed conditions
- neck scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 26, 2004
- Citation
- 0408002
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for a thyroid disability, to include multinodular goiter and malignant tumor of the thymus status post total thyroidectomy with secondary hypothyroidism as secondary to Hodgkin's disease, nodular sclerosing type, blast rich and thymoma, and also granted service connection for a neck scar associated with this thyroid disability.
- Partly granted
The Board granted restoration of the 10 percent rating for residuals of thyroid cancer, status post thyroidectomy and denied a compensable rating for the neck scar, s/p thyroidectomy, as well as ratings in excess of 10 percent for xeroderma and service connection for blurred vision, secondary to the thyroid condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection due to duty to assist errors and the need for a medical examination under the PACT Act.
- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeal for a compensable rating for a neck scar, and the Board has no jurisdiction to review this issue.
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