The Board denied a claim for an increased rating for residuals of a fracture to the right ring finger, finding that the disability did not meet or nearly approximate the criteria for a higher rating.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence showed that the veteran's right ring finger was fixed at 45 degrees of flexion and only able to move it from this position to about 8 degrees towards the palmar site. The Board found no impairment reasonably analogous to metacarpal resection with more than one-half of the bone lost, thus not meeting the criteria for a higher rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Fracture of the right ring finger, Stiffness of the right ring finger
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- March 23, 2000
- Citation
- 0007880
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