The Board denied the appellant's claim for service connection for leukopenia, finding that it is not a disease or injury and thus cannot be granted.
The deciding factor: Leukopenia alone is considered a laboratory finding without underlying disability, and therefore does not meet the criteria for service connection under direct service connection theory.
- Claimed conditions
- leukopenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 3, 2003
- Citation
- 0302038
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What this means for you
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