The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for additional medical records and a new VA examination.
The deciding factor: The existing evidence, including the May 2009 VA examination report, was deemed inadequate as it did not address range of motion, DeLuca factors, or diagnostic testing specific to the applicable diagnostic code criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- left femoral neck fracture
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- September 19, 2012
- Citation
- 1232259
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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
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran has withdrawn his appeal on all issues, and the Board does not have jurisdiction to review them.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for an initial rating greater than 10 percent for her service-connected left femoral neck fracture, finding that the disability is no more than slight in degree.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for the cause of his death, finding that renal cell carcinoma did not have a causal relationship to his period of active duty and that there was no indication in the record that it was related to service. The fracture of the left hip and rotator cuff tear were also found not to be related to service.
- Whole decision: Denied
The veteran's left femoral neck fracture, resulting from a fall during his VA hospitalization in early 1996, is not considered to be the result of the hospitalization and therefore does not qualify for compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151.
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