The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's hysterectomy and resulting residuals, finding that they are secondary to her service-connected juvenile granulosa cell tumor.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinion from H.D., ARNP provided a more persuasive correlation between the Veteran's service-connected condition and her current condition compared to the VA examiners' opinions.
- Claimed conditions
- hysterectomy residuals, juvenile granulosa cell tumor
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19179267
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.
What you can do next
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