The Veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of a total hysterectomy, including pelvic pain, abnormal bleeding, and secondary infertility is granted. A rating of 10 percent is assigned for yeast vaginitis.,Service connection for the Veteran’s extraction of tooth number 19 is denied.
The deciding factor: The new evidence received since the last denial supports reopening the claim for service connection for residuals of a total hysterectomy, and a compensable rating is granted for yeast vaginitis.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of total hysterectomy, yeast vaginitis, Bartholin cyst, extraction of tooth number 19
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 11, 2019
- Citation
- 19144807
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Decisions by this judge: 1,515 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and remanded the claims for service connection, initial ratings, and readjudications of other conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the VA examination is inadequate for adjudicative purposes and remands this matter to obtain a VA medical opinion regarding the Veteran's residuals of total hysterectomy and pelvic adhesion disease. The examiner must address whether it is at least as likely as not that the Veteran's conditions had their onset in service or are otherwise related to service, including her service-connected colon resection and cervicitis disabilities.
- Granted
The veteran's claim for service connection for residuals of a total hysterectomy is granted, as her claim was reopened based on new and material evidence. She has established service connection for residuals of carcinoma of the cervix.
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