The Board has granted a 10 percent rating for post-operative residuals of a fracture of the right tibia and fibula, but denied an increased rating for tender scar and paresthesia of the right leg.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show functional impairment attributable to the service-connected scars that would warrant a higher rating under Diagnostic Codes 7803 or 7804.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-operative residuals of a fracture of the right tibia and fibula, Scar of the right leg
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- March 7, 2001
- Citation
- 0106756
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- Granted
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- Denied
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