Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for a right-hand middle finger disability due to missing treatment records and an incomplete medical opinion.
The deciding factor: A remand is necessary to address duty to assist errors, including obtaining missing surgical and urgent care records, and to obtain an addendum medical opinion addressing the Veteran's contentions.
- Claimed conditions
- third finger, right hand metacarpophalangeal proximal inter-phalangeal ankylosis with tenosynovitis and osteomyelitis s/p planned postprocedural wound closure
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25096982
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