The Board has vacated its previous decision and remanded the case for further review due to the need for additional treatment records.
The deciding factor: Additional medical evidence is needed to properly evaluate the veteran's claim.
- Claimed conditions
- left thigh injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 17, 2006
- Citation
- 0607922
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
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- Denied
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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