The Board has confirmed and continued the initial evaluations for the veteran's service-connected left knee disabilities, including residuals of a laceration, degenerative changes, laceration scar, tibial deformity, tenderness of distal anterior femoral cutaneous nerve, and tenderness of neuroma proximal saphenous nerve. The current 10 percent evaluations under Diagnostic Code 5299-5257 for the residuals of a laceration are not higher than what is warranted based on the evidence.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not show that the veteran's left knee disability involves subluxation or lateral instability more than slight, which would warrant a higher evaluation under Diagnostic Code 5299-5257.
- Claimed conditions
- laceration of the left knee, degenerative changes of the left knee, laceration scar, left knee, tibial deformity, left knee, tenderness of distal anterior femoral cutaneous nerve, left knee, tenderness of neuroma, proximal saphenous nerve, left knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- March 21, 2000
- Citation
- 0007530
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