The Board has remanded the case for further development due to inadequate VCAA notice and examination.
The deciding factor: The VA needs to provide proper VCAA notices and conduct a thorough medical examination to address the service connection issue.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of right nephrectomy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 14, 2005
- Citation
- 0510778
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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.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of a right nephrectomy due to oncocytoma, finding that it was not incurred in or aggravated by active service and may not be presumed to have been incurred in service.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a back disorder and residuals of right nephrectomy, finding no evidence linking these conditions to active military service.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a chronic skin disorder, low back disability, prostate cancer and erectile dysfunction. The claim to reopen his bilateral eye disorder was also denied.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for various conditions, including tinnitus, malignant melanoma of the left shoulder, basal cell carcinoma of the face, skin rash (acne), abdominal disorder (diverticulitis), headaches, acquired psychiatric disorder (depression), residuals of right nephrectomy, cyst of the liver and gallbladder, tingling of the lower extremities, a disorder of the left eyelid with associated loss of vision, residuals of stress fractures of the left tibia and ribs, and chest pain. The ratings for these conditions have not been assigned yet.
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