The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected cholelithiasis, status post cholecystectomy, is essentially nonsymptomatic and does not meet the criteria for an initial compensable evaluation.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show any impairment of health due to the veteran's service-connected choilelithiasis, status post cholecystectomy.
- Claimed conditions
- cholelithiasis, status post cholecystectomy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 3, 2002
- Citation
- 0217437
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