The Board has granted an increased rating of 20 percent for the veteran's right knee disability and has determined that a separate 10 percent evaluation is warranted for his left knee meniscectomy. The service connection claim for the left knee disability as secondary to the right knee disability is also granted.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the veteran's left knee condition was proximately caused by his service-connected right knee disability, and provided X-ray evidence of degenerative joint disease in both knees.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Knee Meniscectomy, Right Knee Medial Meniscectomy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- March 10, 2004
- Citation
- 0406330
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What this means for you
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