The Veteran's appeal is being remanded to obtain additional private medical records and for further development.
The deciding factor: VA has not obtained all relevant private treatment records from the Veteran, as required by law.
- Claimed conditions
- scars, multiple residuals of fragment wounds, right calf, scar, residual of fragment wound, right leg, popliteal fossa, residuals of fragment wound, right leg, with retained foreign bodies, right ankle arthralgia, scar, residual of a fragment wound, left foot
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 5, 2009
- Citation
- 0929129
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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
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected ulcerative colitis is found to have caused his arthralgia in the left and right feet, ankles, hands, and wrists. Service connection for these conditions is granted.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for left shoulder, right knee, lung, and other specified trauma and stressor related disorder (psychiatric disability) claims while granting service connection for the psychiatric disability. The Board also denied increased ratings for various conditions including right ankle arthralgia, tinnitus, lumbosacral strain, and hypertension.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal has been dismissed as he expressed satisfaction with the current status of his case and wishes to close it.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for additional VA examinations to assess the current severity of his service-connected bilateral ankle disabilities, residuals of a thoracotomy, and sarcoidosis.
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