The Veteran's bilateral pterygium claim remains before the Board due to outstanding treatment records. The TDIU rating claim is also remanded for further development and evaluation of employment status.
The deciding factor: Outstanding medical records are needed to make a fully informed decision on the Veteran's service-connected disability ratings, including his bilateral pterygium.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral pterygium
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19193825
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted an increased rating of 10 percent for bilateral pterygium effective July 5, 2022.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for bilateral pterygium and pinguecula, finding that there is no current diagnosis of these conditions and that they are not related to his military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that more contemporaneous VA examinations are needed to properly assess the current severity of the disabilities, including hemorrhoids, erectile dysfunction, bilateral pterygium, and lower extremity radiculopathy. The issue of entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU) has also been raised by the record.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's service-connected bilateral pterygium has worsened since her last VA examination in July 2013, and she requests a new examination to reassess the severity of this condition.
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