The Board has determined that the veteran's current left wrist disability is not related to his service-connected ganglion cyst removal and therefore, an evaluation in excess of 10 percent is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no clinical evidence linking the veteran's current left wrist disability to his initial ganglion cyst removal during service in 1978.
- Claimed conditions
- left wrist ganglion cyst
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 25, 2000
- Citation
- 0022618
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What this means for you
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- Partly granted
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- Denied
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