The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection and initial ratings for his disabilities, finding no current disability of the eyes for which service connection may be granted.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of a current disability of the eyes resulting from the veteran's in-service radial keratotomy.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of radial keratotomy, benign prostatic hypertrophy, patellar femoral syndrome of the left knee, onychomycosis of the big toes, degenerative disc disease of the lumbosacral spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 17, 2003
- Citation
- 0316250
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What this means for you
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