The Board has determined that the veteran does not have a current disability characterized as right shoulder pain, skin rash, or right knee pain related to service. The claims for service connection are denied.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence of record establishing that the veteran currently has a disability characterized as right shoulder pain, skin rash, or right knee pain, and these conditions have been attributed by diagnostic testing and examiner to known clinical diagnoses.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Pain, Right Shoulder Pain, Skin Rash
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 28, 2003
- Citation
- 0310171
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for TDIU is being remanded due to a duty-to-assist error. The AOJ needs to obtain any outstanding VA and private medical records from 2018 to 2021 that may be relevant to his service-connected disabilities.
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