The Board has denied the veteran's claim for service connection for peripheral retinal degeneration of the left eye due to a lack of relevant medical records.
The deciding factor: There are outstanding VA treatment records that have not been obtained, which could provide evidence necessary to decide the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- peripheral retinal degeneration of the left eye
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 18, 2000
- Citation
- 0024862
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- Granted
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