The Board has remanded the case due to a lack of clinical records from the veteran's intracranial meningioma resection surgery, and a need for an examination to determine if the facial nerve palsy and left eye diplopia were usual effects of the surgery.
The deciding factor: The examiner is needed to determine whether the veteran's residuals are usual effects of her surgical treatment in service.
- Claimed conditions
- 5th facial nerve palsy, 6th facial nerve palsy, left eye diplopia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 30, 2008
- Citation
- 0817858
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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: Denied
The Board denied compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for resolving left third nerve palsy and left eye diplopia due to a Kenalog injection because the evidence did not show that the Veteran's disability was caused by the April 2010 VA injection.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claim for a higher rating for left eye diplopia and TDIU on an extraschedular basis was denied. The Board found that the current 40 percent rating adequately reflects the severity of his disability, as it accounted for interference with employment due to loss of pilot and state trooper positions.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that the Veteran's claim for service connection of a left eye disability, to include diplopia, must be remanded due to insufficient evidence and incomplete medical records.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 is remanded due to the submission of new evidence, and he has been requested to waive RO review.
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