The Board has determined that the veteran does not have any of the claimed conditions and therefore, service connection for these conditions is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no competent evidence showing a nexus between the claimed conditions and the veteran's service. The first post-service medical evidence of any of the claimed conditions comes in 1997, approximately 51 years after separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Shoulder Condition, Ear Condition, Eye Condition, Skin Condition, Residuals of Ingrown Toenail
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 28, 2003
- Citation
- 0329352
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board denied a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss and remanded the claims for increased ratings, service connection, and TDIU due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issues of entitlement to a compensable rating for GERD, service connection for skin condition, and service connection for lung condition due to missing evidence in the claims file.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a disability rating in excess of 70 percent for generalized anxiety disorder, denied compensable ratings for external hemorrhoids and sinusitis, granted service connection for migraine headaches secondary to sinusitis, and granted service connection for left foot and left shoulder conditions. The claims for increased ratings for urethral stricture, lumbosacral strain, and ulnar neuropathy were remanded.
- Dismissed
The appeal of entitlement to service connection for obstructive sleep apnea was dismissed due to an improper concurrent election, while the other issues were remanded for further development.
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