The Veteran's skin disability, including sebaceous cysts and pyoderma gangrenosum, is being remanded for further examination to determine if it is related to his service-connected acne with scarring.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner must opine whether the Veteran's skin disabilities are at least as likely as not related to service or secondary to his service-connected acne with scarring.
- Claimed conditions
- Sebaceous cysts, Pyoderma gangrenosum
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 26, 2021
- Citation
- 21065448
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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
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