The Board has remanded the case for further examination and opinion regarding whether a right ankle disability had its onset in service or was caused by an injury during service.
The deciding factor: The Board requested clarification on the examiner's conflicting opinions regarding the current right ankle disability and its relation to the 1983 right foot injury.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a fracture of the right ankle
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 28, 2010
- Citation
- 1028247
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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.
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- Denied
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- Denied
The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for residuals of a fracture of the right ankle, a right wrist disability, a left wrist disability, a low back disability, and pseudofolliculitis barbae. The evidence does not support these claims as there is no current diagnosis or showing of such disabilities.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's skin cancer was not incurred in or aggravated by service and may not be presumed to have been incurred in service. The claims for residuals of a concussion, right ankle fracture, right wrist fracture, and occipital parietal diastasis fracture with left facial paralysis are denied as well.
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