The Board's decision denying a separate rating for shortening of the right lower extremity is being revised due to clear and unmistakable error.
The deciding factor: The correct facts were not before the Board, leading to an incorrect application of regulations that precluded combining a rating for shortening with another rating for fractures or faulty union.
- Claimed conditions
- Shortening of right lower extremity, Muscle injury to Group XI
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- August 9, 2001
- Citation
- 0120461
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