The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a psychiatric disability, to include insomnia due post-traumatic stress disorder and a skin disorder. The evidence did not support the presence of these conditions as a result of service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not support the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder or any current skin condition related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric disability (to include insomnia due post-traumatic stress disorder), Skin disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 18, 2002
- Citation
- 0203552
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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