The Board granted the restoration of a 50 percent disability rating for bilateral postoperative gynecomastia, finding no clear and unmistakable error in the previous decision.
The deciding factor: The evidence at the time included wide local excision with significant alteration of both form and size of both breasts, supporting a 50 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 7626. The Board found no CUE that would warrant reducing the rating to noncompensable.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral postoperative gynecomastia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- October 17, 2025
- Citation
- A25089623
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,451 · Granted: 22% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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