The Board of Veterans' Appeals denied the veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral above-the-knee amputations, finding that they were not proximately due to or the result of his in-service fracture.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner noted that there was no evidence of a current disability as a result of the fracture of the left femur and found that the veteran's bilateral above-the-knee amputations were not causally related to the in-service fracture.
- Claimed conditions
- compound comminuted fracture of the left femur, bilateral above-the-knee amputations
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 23, 2003
- Citation
- 0313531
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