The Veteran's appeal is being remanded to obtain missing medical records for his April 1997 left hip surgery at the Detroit VAMC.
The deciding factor: Additional VA clinical documentation was requested but not received, necessitating a new request and review of the case.
- Claimed conditions
- left hip fracture residuals, left lower extremity residual shortening
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 29, 2010
- Citation
- 1040771
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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.
- Granted
The Veteran's service connection claims for B-cell lymphoma, left and right lower extremity small fiber sensory neuropathy, and left hip fracture residuals are granted. The TDIU claim is also remanded.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for a 50 percent evaluation of left hip fracture residuals from July 7, 2017 is granted. The effective date for the shortening of the left lower extremity is set at December 11, 2019.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for various disabilities, including left knee disability, left ankle disability, and left hip fracture residuals. The issues of chronic headaches, cerebrovascular accident (CVA), psychiatric disability, vertigo, back disability, and right eye cataracts were also addressed.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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