The Board has granted a 30% evaluation for acne, effective from July 1997. The veteran's service-connected pseudofolliculitis barbae is not compensably rated as there is no evidence of the required manifestations.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support the assignment of a 50% evaluation for acne which requires ulceration or extensive exfoliation or crusting, and systemic or nervous manifestations, or evidence of an exceptionally repugnant condition. The veteran's service-connected acne is productive of lesions and scarring that are markedly disfiguring.
- Claimed conditions
- Pseudofolliculitis Barbae, Acne
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- December 20, 2000
- Citation
- 0033206
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