Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal regarding the ratings and effective dates assigned to scarring on the back of scalp/neck, bilateral upper extremities, and bilateral lower extremities is dismissed due to claim preclusion.
The deciding factor: Res judicata prohibits the Board from readjudicating the issues involved in this appeal as they are wholly duplicative to those considered by the Board in a concurrently issued decision.
- Claimed conditions
- scarring on the back of scalp/neck, bilateral upper extremities, and bilateral lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 1, 2025
- Citation
- A25084452
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