The Board has reinstated the Veteran's permanent and total (100 percent) rating for service-connected pigmented villonodular synovitis of the left hip, effective June 4, 2002.
The deciding factor: The Court ordered VA to reinstate the permanent and total rating awarded in June 1992 for service-connected PVS of the left hip, status post partial resection, with left extensor hallucis longus weakness.
- Claimed conditions
- Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis (PVS) of the left hip
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- July 15, 2014
- Citation
- 1431746
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for restoration of a 100 percent rating for service-connected PVS and entitlement to a rating in excess of 60 percent for PVS of the left hip, from June 4, 2002.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board determined that the reduction of the rating from 100 percent to 60 percent was proper, and denied the claim for restoration of a 100 percent rating.
- Whole decision: Denied
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- Whole decision: Denied
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