The Board found no evidence of a current groin disability and denied the veteran's claim for service connection as his claimed groin pain is not related to his service-connected knee disorder.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations did not diagnose any groin disability, and the examiner opined that the veteran’s groin pain was unrelated to his service-connected knee disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- Groin pain
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 11, 2004
- Citation
- 0404026
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