The Board has granted a 10 percent rating for the veteran's service-connected residual scar from excision of a ganglion cyst of the right wrist, finding that it is manifested by tenderness and pain as well as diminished sensibility and slightly decreased pinprick around the scar. The arthritis in the wrist was not found to be causally related to the service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not establish a causal relationship between the veteran's arthritis and his service-connected residual scar from excision of a ganglion cyst of the right wrist, but it showed that the veteran's symptoms were more likely due to his 'wrist affliction' including tenderness, pain, and diminished sensibility around the scar.
- Claimed conditions
- residual scar from excision of a ganglion cyst of the right wrist, arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- April 12, 2004
- Citation
- 0409502
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