The Board has determined that the veteran does not have a current disability as a result of balanitis incurred during service, and therefore denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence linking current pathology or symptomatology to balanitis incurred during service.
- Claimed conditions
- balanitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 28, 2003
- Citation
- 0303550
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 504 · Granted: 31% (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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What you can do next
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's obstructive sleep apnea, folliculitis, tinea cruris, and balanitis were all found to have onset in service.,Service connection was granted for these conditions based on the evidence of record.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's balanitis is granted as secondary to his service-connected prostate cancer status post radical prostatectomy. The rating for bilateral hearing loss remains at 10 percent, but the issue of a higher rating is remanded due to insufficient evidence.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claims for service connection and SMC based on loss of use of a creative organ due to the need for an opinion regarding the etiology of his male reproductive organ disorders.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's penile disorder is at least as likely as not incurred in service, and thus grants his claim for service connection.
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