The Board has remanded the claims for lipomas, right wrist nerve damage, and lipoma removal scars due to incomplete records and need for a medical opinion regarding their etiology.
The deciding factor: Incomplete service treatment records are preventing a determination on the etiology of the Veteran's lipomas and related conditions. Further development is needed to locate these records and provide an advisory medical opinion.
- Claimed conditions
- lipomas, right wrist nerve damage, lipoma removal scars
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19195480
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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.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for digestive condition and sinusitis, but granted service connection for vitiligo of the penis and lipomas. The initial ratings for various disabilities were also denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board found that the reduction of the rating for service-connected painful left foot scar from 10 percent to 0 percent, effective July 19, 2023, was not proper and is void ab initio.
- Granted
The Board grants service connection for lipomas, finding the evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether they began during military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the case for a VA examination to clarify the etiology of the Veteran's lipomas, including whether they are part of a medically unexplained chronic multi-symptom illness or related to service in Southwest Asia.
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