The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a huge symptomatic plantar wart on his left foot and sebaceous cysts over his facial area, finding no evidence of such conditions during service or related to exposure to herbicides. The claim for bilateral hearing loss is pending.
The deciding factor: Service records did not show any skin disorders during the veteran's active duty, and there was no medical evidence linking these current conditions to service or to exposure to herbicides.
- Claimed conditions
- huge symptomatic plantar wart, left foot, sebaceous cysts over the facial area
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 28, 2001
- Citation
- 0106009
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