The Board found no competent medical evidence linking the veteran's current throat disability to his service-connected chronic sinusitis, and thus denied the claim for secondary service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence showing that the veteran's current throat condition (claimed as chronic laryngitis) is due to or resulting from his service-connected chronic sinusitis/rhinitis.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic laryngitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2002
- Citation
- 0218464
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