The veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including new VA examinations and the retrieval of medical records.
The deciding factor: The case requires further examination to assess current disability levels and a search for missing medical records.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a hemorrhoidectomy, hypertrophic gastritis with duodenal ulcer and prepyloric ulcer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 30, 2007
- Citation
- 0715938
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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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for residuals of prostate cancer and denied service connection for prostatitis, alopecia areata, and residuals of a hemorrhoidectomy.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection are being remanded due to the need for additional examinations and opinions.,The Veteran's claim for a compensable rating for hemorrhoid residuals is being remanded as there may be an additional separate disability evaluation warranted under another diagnostic code.,The Veteran's claims for left knee and right knee disabilities are being remanded due to insufficient evidence of in-service events or diagnoses.,The Veteran's claim for a left ear disability is being remanded due to insufficient evidence of in-service events or diagnoses.,The Veteran's claim for bilateral hand disabilities is being remanded due to insufficient evidence of in-service events or diagnoses.,The Veteran's claim for right-sided flank pain is being remanded due to insufficient evidence of in-service events or diagnoses.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected thoracic and lumbar spine disability most likely contributed to his loss of use of his feet, which meets the criteria for automobile and adaptive equipment or adaptive equipment only.
- Granted
The Veteran's current residuals of a hemorrhoidectomy, to include hemorrhoids, disability is found to be related to service and the claim for service connection is granted.
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