The Board has denied the veteran's claims for service connection for allergies and a compensable rating for status post tonsillectomy with chronic tonsillitis, finding no evidence of such conditions in service or related to his service-connected condition.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not establish that the veteran had allergies incurred in service or linked to his service-connected condition. The VA examinations also found no significant impairment from his status post tonsillectomy with chronic tonsillitis, which was already rated as noncompensable.
- Claimed conditions
- allergies, status post tonsillectomy with chronic tonsillitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 24, 2004
- Citation
- 0416588
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