The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete medical records and the need for an addendum opinion regarding the Veteran's bilateral varicoceles.
The deciding factor: The decision is being remanded because there are insufficient medical records and a VA physician needs to provide additional opinions on whether the Veteran's scrotal disability is related to his military service or preexisted it.
- Claimed conditions
- scrotal disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 14, 2016
- Citation
- 1610047
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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: Denied
The Board denied service connection for left, right ankle disabilities, scrotal disability, and pituitary gland disability as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions were incurred in or caused by active military service.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's claim for an initial rating higher than 10 percent for residuals of penile injury with post-operative residuals of a retained foreign body in the scrotum was granted, effective March 28, 2014.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's current scrotal disability, diagnosed as a benign granular cell tumor of the scrotum, is found to be service-connected due to continuity of symptomatology since service.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for rhinitis and a scrotal disability, finding current diagnoses and continuity of symptomatology. Initial ratings have not been assigned as the evidence does not meet criteria for higher initial ratings.
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