The Board has determined that there is insufficient medical evidence to decide the claim and requires a VA examination to determine if the veteran's current throat pain, ear pain, and dysphonia are related to her military service.
The deciding factor: There is not enough medical evidence to support the claim of service connection for the veteran's current symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- dysphonia, residuals of an operation to remove vocal cord cysts
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 30, 2008
- Citation
- 0817793
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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
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted earlier effective dates for the service connection of various conditions related to lung cancer, including scars, pain, and hearing loss, but denied an earlier effective date for non-small cell lung cancer itself.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted an initial 60 percent evaluation for dysphonia based on the Veteran's inability to speak above a whisper and its impact on his ability to work.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a throat condition to schedule an appropriate VA compensation examination to determine the nature and etiology of the Veteran's claimed throat condition.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The appeal is remanded to obtain the original signed consent document for a neck surgery in March 2022. The veteran claims VA negligence caused vocal cord paralysis and dysphonia.
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