The Board has granted service connection for a psychiatric disorder (anxiety or dysthymic disorder) secondary to the veteran's service-connected left varicocele and infertility, as well as service connection for right carpal tunnel syndrome and a skin disorder (actinic/seborrheic keratoses).
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran's psychiatric disorder is related to his service-connected condition of infertility.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety disorder or dysthymic disorder, left knee condition, right carpal tunnel syndrome, skin disorder (actinic/seborrheic keratoses)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 8, 2001
- Citation
- 0120379
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Dismissed
The Board has dismissed the appeal as it found that the benefits originally sought have been granted in full, and thus there is no longer a specific error of fact or law to address.
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