The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining medical records and scheduling a VA examination to determine if the veteran's chronic rhinosinusitis is related to service.
The deciding factor: The examiner will assess whether there is more than a 50% probability that the veteran's chronic rhinosinusitis is related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic rhinosinusitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 30, 2004
- Citation
- 0411346
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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 granted service connection for chronic rhinosinusitis on a direct basis.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for chronic rhinosinusitis, finding that the condition was caused by exposure to toxins during service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter for a medical nexus opinion regarding the Veteran's respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartoma and its potential relation to exposure at Camp Lejeune.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for asthma, allergic rhinitis, and chronic rhinosinusitis were granted on a presumptive basis from August 5, 2021. The Board denied the requests for earlier effective dates.
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