The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining service treatment records and a VA examination. The Veteran's skin disorder is being considered on its merits without any presumption or secondary connection to herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: The claim requires further evidence and evaluation before a determination can be made regarding the nature of the Veteran's skin disorder and whether it is related to his military service, including consideration of non-herbicide-related factors.
- Claimed conditions
- perivascular dermatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 20, 2009
- Citation
- 0926986
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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 claim of service connection for perivascular dermatitis, finding that it was not incurred or aggravated by active duty military service and did not have a relationship to herbicide exposure.
- Granted
The Board found that the Veteran's service-connected pityriasis versicolor caused his seborrheic keratosis of the upper extremities and granted service connection for this condition. The right foot disability was also found to be related to service, with a rating assigned.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a skin rash, finding that perivascular dermatitis is not a recognized disease for which VA allows presumptive service connection based on presumed herbicide exposure in Vietnam.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for residuals of perivascular dermatitis and assigned a noncompensable disability rating, which the veteran now seeks to increase. The VA determined that his condition warranted a compensable rating under the old criteria.
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