The Board has decided to remand the case for additional development, including obtaining medical records and scheduling VA examinations.
The deciding factor: The decision is being remanded due to incomplete or outdated evidence that may affect the determination of service connection and disability ratings.
- Claimed conditions
- medial meniscus tear of the right knee, residuals of a head injury to include headaches, fasciotomy of the right anterior lateral compartment of the right leg with scar, scalp scars
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 17, 2017
- Citation
- 1733552
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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
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for an initial compensable rating for actinic keratosis and scalp scars due to new evidence that was not available during the previous VA examination.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the DIC claim due to insufficient medical opinion regarding whether service-connected conditions contributed to the Veteran's cause of death and if so, which ones. The appellant asserts that TBI, PTSD, prostate cancer, and scalp scars may have aggravated hypertensive cardiomyopathy.
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