The Board found that the veteran's current peripheral neuropathy is not related to his service-connected right knee disability and denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: Competent medical evidence did not support a link between the veteran's service-connected right knee disability and his current neurological disorder, with the majority of diagnoses attributing the condition to diabetes mellitus.
- Claimed conditions
- neuropathy, nerve damage
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 30, 2003
- Citation
- 0318173
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What this means for you
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