The Board found that the reduction in rating for the service-connected appendectomy scar from 10 percent to noncompensable was proper and denied the veteran's appeal.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence showed an improvement in the veteran's appendectomy scar, with no current tenderness or other symptoms attributed to it. The Board found that this warranted a reduction to noncompensable rating as per VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- appendectomy scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 23, 2000
- Citation
- 0013625
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