The Board has determined that the veteran's right elbow disorder was not incurred in or aggravated by active military service, and therefore denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence of a current right elbow disability except for pain. The VA examiner indicated that the veteran's inservice right elbow bursitis resolved without residual disability and that the current right elbow pain was unrelated to the inservice bursitis.
- Claimed conditions
- right elbow disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 11, 2002
- Citation
- 0211794
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What this means for you
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