The Board has determined that the veteran's claim for secondary service connection for degenerative joint disease, right knee replacement is not well grounded because there is no competent evidence establishing a link between his service-connected residuals of a fracture of the right fibula and his current condition.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence showing a causal relationship between the veteran's service-connected disability and his claimed condition.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative joint disease, right knee replacement
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 8, 2000
- Citation
- 0003173
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Granted
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- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for PTSD and right knee replacement was dismissed due to a docketing error.
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