The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection and a compensable rating for his right shoulder disability, including as secondary to his service-connected residuals of a right clavicle fracture.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show that the veteran's arthritis was proximately due to or the result of his service-connected fracture of the right distal clavicle.
- Claimed conditions
- Right shoulder arthritis, Post-traumatic deformities in the right humeral head and distal clavicle, Avascular necrosis of the right shoulder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- August 11, 2003
- Citation
- 0319788
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