The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete service treatment records and the need for a VA examination.
The deciding factor: Incomplete medical records and the need for further evaluation of cervical polyps and related conditions necessitate additional development.
- Claimed conditions
- cervical polyps, von Willebrand's disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 12, 2010
- Citation
- 1009386
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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 a request for an earlier effective date for the right knee scar and granted separate ratings for left knee extension limitation, instability, flexion limitation, and service connection for endometriosis, cervical polyps, pelvic pain, respiratory disability, low back disability, right hip disability, left hip disability, and anemia.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases for additional development due to uncertainty about whether the Veteran's current cervical cancer is related to her in-service cervix complaints.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for cervical polyps, to include chronic residuals thereof, finding no current disability manifested by these conditions.
- Granted
The Veteran's total hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy were performed due to her congenital von Willebrand's disease, which was not service-connected. The Board has now granted service connection for the postoperative residuals of a total hysterectomy based on aggravation.
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