The Board has remanded two issues: 1) Bilateral calf conditions and 2) A scar on the Veteran's chin. The Veteran served in the Marine Corps from March 1992 to March 1996.
The deciding factor: The Board found that additional medical examination is needed for both issues due to conflicting opinions and lack of consideration of the Veteran’s lay statements regarding his symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral calf conditions, scar on chin
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19105578
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Decisions by this judge: 2,451 · Granted: 22% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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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 Board has granted service connection for a chin scar, finding that the condition began during active service and is not related to any other conditions or exposures.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board dismissed all issues related to service connection and rating for various conditions as the Veteran died during the appeal process.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service connection for a scar on the chin, painful scars from appendectomy and lysis of adhesions, and a painful and unstable chin scar is granted with an effective date of September 20, 2016. The Veteran receives a disability rating of 30 percent under Diagnostic Code 7804.
- 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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