The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development, including obtaining updated medical records and providing the Veteran with a VA examination to assess his fecal stress incontinence and damage to the neurovascular bundle of the rectum.
The deciding factor: Further development is needed as the current evidence does not provide sufficient information on the severity of the Veteran's service-connected fecal stress incontinence, nor does it establish whether the damage to the neurovascular bundle of the rectum is secondary to his service-connected adenocarcinoma of the prostate.
- Claimed conditions
- fecal stress incontinence, damage to neurovascular bundle of rectum
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 8, 2018
- Citation
- 1800848
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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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