The Board has remanded the case due to conflicting evidence regarding the nature of the Veteran's mass and its relationship to his presumed exposure to herbicide agents during service. The Veteran is presumed to have been exposed to herbicide agents, but a definitive diagnosis cannot be made without surgery.
The deciding factor: There is conflicting evidence regarding whether the Veteran's mass is a schwannoma or another type of mass, such as a meningioma or soft-tissue sarcoma.
- Claimed conditions
- mass of the right cerebellopontine angle (CPA), schwannoma, meningioma, acoustic neurilemmoma
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 16, 2019
- Citation
- 19128911
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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.
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