The veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development to address missing service medical records and other pertinent evidence.
The deciding factor: Additional information and evidence are needed to properly assess the veteran's claims, including his service connection claim for residuals of mumps.
- Claimed conditions
- testicular atrophy, hydroceles, varicosities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 5, 2006
- Citation
- 0619527
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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 claims for an earlier effective date for service connection for testicular atrophy and special monthly compensation, as well as higher initial ratings for PTSD and TDIU prior to September 16, 2008.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 is remanded due to the need for a medical opinion regarding whether his January 1996 VA surgery caused additional disability, including chronic right groin pain, hydroceles, erections problems, and testes pain.
- Denied
The veteran's claim for service connection for testicular atrophy was not established until December 23, 2005, and thus the earliest effective date is that date.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran does not have a genitourinary disability due to disease or injury incurred in service, including exposure to herbicides. Therefore, service connection for this condition is denied.
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