The Board has granted service connection for ilioinguinal neuralgia, finding it at least as likely as not that the Veteran's preexisting inguinal hernia was aggravated during service and that his current ilioinguinal neuralgia is not a usual effect of surgical treatment.
The deciding factor: Service connection established based on aggravation of a pre-existing condition during service.
- Claimed conditions
- ilioinguinal neuralgia
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 3, 2019
- Citation
- 19134399
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,738 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board dismissed the Veteran's appeal regarding an earlier effective date for a 10 percent rating assigned for ilioinguinal neuralgia as a residual of inguinal hernia repair right side, which was issued in a legacy system and not subject to continuous pursuit provisions.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for left genitofemoral neuralgia, post inguinal hernia repair, and left ilioinguinal neuralgia due to a lack of recent VA treatment records and outdated medical examinations. The Veteran is also seeking an initial compensable disability rating for these conditions.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied a compensable rating for the Veteran's status post circumcision with residuals of groin injury, finding that his disability did not meet the criteria under Diagnostic Code 7521 (voiding dysfunction) and considering the opinion from the February 2013 VA examiner to be probative against a higher rating based on voiding dysfunction. The Board also considered whether a compensable rating could be assigned under Diagnostic Code 7522 for penile deformity with loss of erectile power, but found no evidence supporting such a finding.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's status post circumcision with residuals of groin injury has been manifested by penile deformity and pain associated with ilioinguinal neuralgia without sensory or motor loss. The Board finds that a compensable rating is not warranted as the disability does not meet the criteria for any applicable diagnostic codes.
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