The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection and an increased rating, finding no evidence of a right testicle injury due to trauma during active duty service.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking any current right testicle disability to an inservice injury or exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of right testicle injury with pain syndrome, atrophy of right testicle
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 23, 2002
- Citation
- 0208243
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