The Board finds that the veteran's right knee condition is proximately due to or the result of his inservice shell fragment wound and service connection for a right knee condition is granted.
The deciding factor: The veteran's partial meniscectomy was related to his shell fragment wound lesions suffered in a fall with trauma to the right leg.
- Claimed conditions
- Right knee condition, Shell fragment wound scar of the right leg
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 15, 2000
- Citation
- 0015837
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