The Board has remanded the case for further development due to missing service records and a request for alternative records search.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service medical records are incomplete, necessitating an additional search of available alternative records.
- Claimed conditions
- osteoarthritis, left hip, status post-total left hip replacement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- August 25, 2005
- Citation
- 0523339
This is a plain-language summary generated by AI from a public Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision. It can contain errors — always verify against the original. Search VA.gov for the original decision (opens in a new tab) using citation 0523339.
What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection for osteoarthritis, left hip; greater trochanteric pain syndrome, left hip; and spinal stenosis, thoracolumbar spine were denied as there is no evidence of a current disability related to her time in service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for service connection for osteoarthritis, left hip as secondary to his service-connected lumbosacral strain with degenerative disc disease and arthritis is being remanded due to a duty to assist error.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for osteoarthritis in both the left and right hip as secondary to a service-connected bilateral knee condition, citing no causal link between the conditions.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased evaluations for various orthopedic conditions, finding that the evidence did not support a compensable evaluation under applicable rating criteria.
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