The Board has granted service connection for hives due to undiagnosed illness, but denied service connection for joint pain.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise as to whether the veteran's hives are causally related to service and attributable to an 'undiagnosed illness'. The Board found that the veteran's joint pain has been attributed by diagnostic testing and a specialist examiner to known, clinical diagnoses including service-connected low back pain and left elbow fracture.
- Claimed conditions
- hives, joint pain
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 10, 2003
- Citation
- 0304304
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- Dismissed
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