The veteran's lumbosacral spine spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis, and L5-S1 interbody fusion residuals are found to have originated during his period of wartime service.
The deciding factor: Service connection is granted based on the veteran's combat experience in Vietnam and the medical evidence linking his current condition to his inservice trauma.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral spine spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis, L5-S1 interbody fusion residuals
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2002
- Citation
- 0216154
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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.
What you can do next
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- Dismissed
The appeal of the November 2024 non-final rating decision, deferring the adjudication of the Veteran's claim for an increased rating for service-connected intervertebral disc syndrome, spinal stenosis, and spondylolisthesis, was dismissed.
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