The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection due to lack of objective medical evidence supporting his claimed disabilities.
The deciding factor: There was no objective evidence of a disability or abnormality associated with the veteran's hands and abdomen, and fatigue symptoms were not found to be disabling enough to warrant a grant of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of left shoulder injury
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 30, 2003
- Citation
- 0325729
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What this means for you
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