The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for degenerative joint disease of the knees, finding that it was not incurred in or aggravated by service and is not shown to be proximately due to, aggravated by, or the result of service-connected frostbite.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not establish a link between the veteran's DJD of the knees and his service-connected frostbite.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative joint disease (DJD) of the knees
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 6, 2004
- Citation
- 0408882
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