The Board has determined that the veteran's skin condition, diagnosed as PMLE, began during active service and is therefore granted service connection.
The deciding factor: The most likely diagnosis of the veteran's skin condition was PMLE, which the examiner noted had a history dating back to 1993. The evidence showed objective indications of chronic disability resulting from an illness or combination of illnesses manifested by signs or symptoms involving skin and other manifestations consistent with undiagnosed illness.
- Claimed conditions
- Polymorphous Light Eruption (PMLE)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 3, 2003
- Citation
- 0300054
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,177 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted a 10 percent rating for PMLE prior to January 8, 1993 based on the effective date of service connection being protected due to the veteran's long-term status of service connection.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The veteran's service-connected PMLE was granted a 10 percent evaluation prior to January 8, 1993. However, the RO denied an evaluation in excess of 10 percent for PMLE beginning on January 8, 1993.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for his service-connected coronary artery disease, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating based on the severity of his condition.
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