The Board has granted compensable ratings of 10 percent for scar, residuals of a shell fragment wound to the right knee and chondromalacia and residuals of a shell fragment wound to the left knee.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence showed no limitation of motion or functional impairment that would warrant higher ratings under any applicable diagnostic codes.
- Claimed conditions
- scar, residuals of a shell fragment wound to the right knee, chondromalacia and residuals of a shell fragment wound to the left knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 29, 2002
- Citation
- 0210833
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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