The Board has granted service connection for the veteran's history of a right ankle injury and assigned a 10 percent rating for his service-connected scar of the left shoulder, with retained metallic foreign body.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the shrapnel in the left shoulder was not responsible for the veteran's discomfort in the left shoulder, but indicated some very mild evidence of impingement and irritation of the acromioclavicular joint.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a right ankle injury, shrapnel wound of the left shoulder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- July 5, 2000
- Citation
- 0017590
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