The Board denied the appellant's claims for service connection for a brain tumor and an increased rating for loss of seven square inches of skull, both for accrued benefits purposes. The evidence did not establish a causal relationship between these conditions and service or service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The competent medical evidence at the time of the veteran's death did not demonstrate a causal relationship between the veteran's brain tumor and service or service-connected chronic brain syndrome, nor was there any evidence showing that the loss of seven square inches of skull was related to service or service-connected conditions within the one-year presumptive period.
- Claimed conditions
- Brain tumor, Loss of seven square inches of skull
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 19, 2004
- Citation
- 0407260
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What this means for you
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