The veteran's service-connected endometriosis and pelvic adhesions, status post laparoscopy, lysis and left salpingectomy is productive of lesions involving the bowel confirmed by laparoscopy, pelvic pain, and bowel symptoms.
The deciding factor: The veteran's condition more closely approximates the criteria for a 50 percent disability rating under Diagnostic Code 7629 due to lesions involving the bowel confirmed by laparoscopy, pelvic pain, and bowel symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- endometriosis, pelvic adhesions
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- May 13, 2008
- Citation
- 0815715
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The veteran withdrew the appeal for all service connection claims, and the Board has no jurisdiction to review these matters.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the appeal for a medical opinion to determine if any gynecological disorder, including reproductive damage and adhesive disease, is related to service or a service-connected disability.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for endometriosis, to include any residuals, based on evidence showing the condition was diagnosed during active duty and led to a subsequent hysterectomy.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for endometriosis, oophorectomy (claimed as ovariectomy), and ovarian adhesions due to insufficient evidence.
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