The Veteran's petition to reopen her claim of entitlement to service connection for a hysterectomy is granted. The Board finds new and material evidence has been submitted, raising the possibility that she will prevail on this claim.,Service connection for PTSD due to MST is granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s hysterectomy was not caused by or a result of her service-connected residuals of carcinoma in-situ and cervical conization. An addendum opinion is needed to address whether the Veteran's menometrorrhagia had its onset during active service, was aggravated beyond its natural progression, or if it was proximately due to her service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Hysterectomy, Cervical conization for carcinoma in-situ
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 1, 2019
- Citation
- 19159661
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- Denied
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