The Board found that the veteran's arthritis of the right foot, peripheral neuropathy of both feet, and fibrositis are not service-connected due to lack of medical evidence supporting these conditions.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking the veteran's current conditions to his service-connected residuals of frostbite of the feet.
- Claimed conditions
- Arthritis of the right foot, Peripheral neuropathy of both feet, Fibrositis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 5, 2000
- Citation
- 0000249
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