The Board has granted a 10 percent disability rating for the veteran's service-connected left eye pterygium, effective from the date of initial grant of service connection. The RO also denied separate ratings for a scar on the conjunctiva and service connection for hyperemia, glaucoma, chronic conjunctivitis, presbyopia, and a scar on the temple area.
The deciding factor: The veteran's left eye pterygium has been manifested by recurrent formation of the condition, discomfort, chronic redness, without loss of vision. The disfigurement related to the scar on the conjunctiva does not produce impairment distinct from the inflammation that is contemplated in the evaluation of the recurrent left eye pterygium.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Eye Pterygium, Scar of Left Eye Conjunctiva
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- July 8, 2002
- Citation
- 0207354
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