The Board has remanded the case due to the need for additional development, including obtaining medical records and scheduling examinations.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need for further evidence and examination as required by the law.
- Claimed conditions
- burn residuals right thigh and leg, burn residuals left thigh and leg, burn residuals right buttock, varicose veins and stasis dermatitis right lower extremity, hepatitis residuals, scars of the left hand, left buttock and donor sites
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 22, 2006
- Citation
- 0618345
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Decisions by this judge: 2,242 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the Veteran's service records show treatment for various conditions during his active duty, but there is no evidence of current disabilities related to those conditions. The claims are being remanded for further development.
- Granted
The Veteran's service connection claims for hepatitis residuals and right knee degenerative arthritis are both granted. The Board found that the evidence is at least as likely as not that these conditions were incurred during military service.
- Denied
The Board has found no evidence of a current disability related to the veteran's in-service hepatitis infection, and thus denied the claim for service connection.
- 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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