The veteran claims service connection for injuries to his right wrist and hand sustained in Germany. The case is being remanded due to the inability to obtain military hospital records from Boblingen, Germany.
The deciding factor: Service medical records are missing, preventing a determination on the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of an injury to the right wrist and hand
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 28, 2004
- Citation
- 0426998
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for increased ratings for left ankle and right wrist disabilities due to new evidence being added to the record.
- Denied
The Board found no current disability of the right wrist and hand, thus denying service connection.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's request to reopen his claim of service connection for residuals of an injury to the right wrist and hand, finding that no new and material evidence had been submitted.
- 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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