The Veteran withdrew her appeal for a restoration of a 10 percent rating for the residuals of an oophorectomy related to ovarian cysts and pelvic adhesions.
The deciding factor: The appellant requested withdrawal from appellate review of her claim.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent right ovarian cysts, pelvic adhesions
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 6, 2024
- Citation
- A24053659
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the appeal for a medical opinion to determine if any gynecological disorder, including reproductive damage and adhesive disease, is related to service or a service-connected disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for hysterectomy and pelvic adhesions to obtain an addendum VA medical opinion.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevented her from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation prior to November 1, 2005. The Board has remanded the case for extra-schedular consideration.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities prevented her from engaging in physical or sedentary employment as of April 17, 2009. The Board granted a TDIU effective that date.
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