The Board has decided that the evidence is insufficient to determine if the bilateral plantar keratosis was incurred during active duty or training, and thus remands for further development.
The deciding factor: The Board found that there are not sufficient medical opinions addressing whether the condition is due to a disease or an injury, and when it may have occurred during service.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral plantar keratosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 21, 2018
- Citation
- 18113245
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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: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected bilateral pes planus has led to the grant of service connection for related conditions such as hammertoes, hallux valgus, and plantar keratosis. Service connection was denied for palmar keratosis and neurovascular disorders.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's claimed conditions, bilateral plantar keratosis and residuals of a cold injury, are not related to service. The veteran's testimony regarding frozen feet during service was not supported by medical evidence linking these conditions to service.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board found that the veteran's service-connected bilateral plantar keratosis, pes planus, and metatarsalgia is no more than severe in degree and thus does not warrant a rating in excess of 30 percent.
- Whole decision: 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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