Cranial Nerve Conditions DBQ: Official VA Form

The public Cranial Nerve Conditions Disability Benefits Questionnaire records medical information for VA evaluation. The form itself provides its current questions, definitions, examination and clinician requirements. A completed form is evidence; it does not establish service connection or guarantee an evaluation.

Form Scope And Qualifications

• Read the form cranial-nerve exclusions and the appropriate companion questionnaires. Associations for cranial nerve VII are intentionally withheld because the form exclusion text names VII.

Related Diagnostic Code Subjects

15 code subjects are associated with this form in this educational directory. These editorial subject associations are not official VA assignments, and the form may not be appropriate for every examination or claim.

• DC 8205: Fifth (trigeminal), paralysis
• DC 8209: Ninth (glossopharyngeal), paralysis
• DC 8210: Tenth (pneumogastric, vagus), paralysis
• DC 8211: Eleventh (spinal accessory, external branch), paralysis
• DC 8212: Twelfth (hypoglossal), paralysis
• DC 8305: Neuritis, fifth cranial nerve
• DC 8309: Neuritis, ninth cranial nerve
• DC 8310: Neuritis, tenth cranial nerve
• DC 8311: Neuritis, eleventh cranial nerve
• DC 8312: Neuritis, twelfth cranial nerve
• DC 8405: Neuralgia, fifth cranial nerve
• DC 8409: Neuralgia, ninth cranial nerve
• DC 8410: Neuralgia, tenth cranial nerve
• DC 8411: Neuralgia, eleventh cranial nerve
• DC 8412: Neuralgia, twelfth cranial nerve

Read The Form Before Arranging An Examination

Review who may complete the form, which conditions it includes or excludes, and whether testing is required. VA can still request a claim examination. Report actual findings; this reference does not provide suggested answers.

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