The Board has determined that the veteran does not currently have residuals of a left thigh injury incurred or aggravated during service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows no current disability and no nexus between any past injuries and present symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a left thigh injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 3, 2005
- Citation
- 0529592
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What this means for you
A final Board denial may be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, generally within 120 days of the Board mailing date. A Supplemental Claim with new and relevant evidence is a separate option. Another Higher-Level Review of the Board decision is not available. Check your own notice: this historical decision does not set your deadline.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 10 percent for residuals of a left thigh injury was denied, while the propriety of reducing his hearing loss rating to noncompensable effective March 1, 2009, was upheld.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board finds that the veteran's current residuals of a left thigh injury are related to an incident during his period of military service and grants service connection for this condition.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The case is being remanded for further development to determine the dates of service and any related work-related injuries, as well as to obtain a VA examination to assess the relationship between current back and thigh problems and service.
- Whole decision: 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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