The Board has granted service connection for chronic lymphadenopathy due to an undiagnosed illness, finding that the veteran's symptoms are attributable to her service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on the presumption applicable to veterans who served in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Gulf War and have objective indications of a chronic disability resulting from an undiagnosed illness, with no known clinical diagnosis.
- Claimed conditions
- swollen lymph nodes
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- November 12, 2002
- Citation
- 0216197
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