The Board has granted service connection for the veteran's right knee scars and has denied an increased rating for his pneumothorax with fractured ribs. The effective date is not specified.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on continuity of symptomatology following in-service trauma, while the increased rating claim for the pneumothorax with fractures was denied as there was no evidence of a chronic disability within one year post-service discharge.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of right knee injury, Residuals of pneumothorax with fractured ribs
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 25, 2001
- Citation
- 0102032
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