The veteran's service-connected status post-transurethral resection of the prostate is not manifested by voiding dysfunction or urinary tract infection, but it is productive of impotence. The Board has granted an initial evaluation of 20 percent for this condition.
The deciding factor: The veteran does not suffer from a penal deformity and his impotence was attributed to service-connected transurethral operations. Given the anatomical localization, symptomatology, and functional impairment, the disability is most appropriately rated by analogy under Diagnostic Code 7522.
- Claimed conditions
- status post-transurethral resection of the prostate, impotence
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- May 16, 2000
- Citation
- 0012898
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