The Board denied entitlement to extraschedular evaluations for the veteran's service-connected left elbow, back, and right leg disabilities due to a lack of evidence showing that these conditions prevent the use of regular rating criteria.
The deciding factor: The veteran did not present or identify any evidence demonstrating frequent hospitalization, marked interference with employment, or other factors preventing the use of the regular rating criteria for his service-connected left elbow, back, and right leg disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Healed fracture of the left elbow with a residual operative scar, Partial collapse of L1 and narrowing of the intervertebral base at T12-L1, Healed fracture of the left tibia and fibula with shortening of the left leg, Shell fragment wound to the right leg
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 20, 2002
- Citation
- 0202598
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