The Veteran withdrew his appeal regarding the claim for service connection for irritant contact dermatitis, mild, post cubital fossa right knee, claimed as due to herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: The Veteran requested and received a hearing before the Board but subsequently withdrew his appeal prior to a decision being made.
- Claimed conditions
- irritant contact dermatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 4, 2014
- Citation
- 1414737
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to insufficient opinions regarding whether the Veteran's skin disabilities are related to service, Camp Lejeune exposure, or herbicide agent exposure. The VA needs to provide new opinions on these issues.
- Granted
The Veteran's skin condition, including eczema, psoriasis, hyperkeratosis, irritant contact dermatitis, and porphyria cutanea tarda, is found to be related to his service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and granted.
- Denied
The Board found no current diagnosis of a chronic skin disability and determined that the episodes of irritant contact dermatitis in service were acute and transitory, resolving without residual disability.
- 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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