The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical opinions regarding whether the granuloma annulare is related to service, especially as secondary to diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: The Board found the existing medical opinions inadequate and requested a new opinion addressing causation and aggravation of the condition by diabetes mellitus.
- Claimed conditions
- granuloma annulare
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 21, 2019
- Citation
- 19121021
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Decisions by this judge: 1,863 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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This is a plain-language summary generated by AI from a public Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision. It can contain errors — always verify against the original. Read the original VA decision (opens in a new tab) using citation 19121021.
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 determined that new and relevant evidence supports the Veteran's claim for service connection for granuloma annulare, including as due to herbicide exposure. The Veteran was presumed exposed to herbicides during his military service, and a VA examiner concluded that his current condition is related to this exposure.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted initial disability ratings of 30 percent for chronic sinusitis, 50 percent for migraine headaches, 40 percent for a lumbosacral strain, 20 percent for a cervical strain, and 10 percent for granuloma annulare from May 1, 2023 to January 23, 2024.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted the reopening of the claim for service connection for a skin disorder and has also granted secondary service connection for this condition due to the Veteran's service-connected diabetes mellitus type II. The skin disorder is currently diagnosed as granuloma annulare, tinea pedis, tinea unguium, and dermatophytosis.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claims for an effective date prior to September 20, 2012, for increased evaluations of her service-connected granuloma annulare and lichen sclerosis with pruritus ani, small anal skin tags, and hemorrhoids are denied as there is no evidence of increase in disability within one year prior to the filing of her claims.
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