The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a skin disorder due to herbicide exposure, finding no evidence of any such condition and concluding that there is no positive association between herbicide exposure and the occurrence of a skin disease in humans.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not support a nexus between the veteran's claimed skin disorders and his exposure to herbicides during service.
- Claimed conditions
- skin disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 2, 2002
- Citation
- 0213408
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