The Board has determined that the appellant's bilateral defective hearing is related to service-connected chronic sinusitis and grants secondary service connection for this condition. The issue of benefits pursuant to 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 for forehead scarring resulting from an April 1993 fall during VA hospitalization remains pending.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the appellant's bilateral defective hearing is related to his service-connected sinusitis, and thus granted secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral defective hearing, forehead scarring
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 27, 2003
- Citation
- 0329272
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