The Board has determined that the veteran's claim for service connection for a right eye disability secondary to his service-connected left eye disability is not well-grounded. The evidence does not establish a causal relationship between the service-connected left eye disability and the current right eye disabilities.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking the current right eye disabilities to the service-connected left eye disability.
- Claimed conditions
- right eye pterygium, cataract in the right eye
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 2, 2000
- Citation
- 0020255
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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- Denied
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