The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for arthritis of the right lower extremity as secondary to his service-connected postoperative residuals, hematoma of the right ankle and an increased evaluation for the service-connected right ankle disability.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence showing a causal relationship between the service-connected right ankle residuals and subsequent development of arthritis of the right lower extremity. The VA examiner found nothing to attribute to the veteran's service-connected injury other than the history of the lump on his ankle which had been removed.
- Claimed conditions
- arthritis of the right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- February 10, 2000
- Citation
- 0003500
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