Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision 0417263
The deciding factor: The veteran's claim is based on a combination of existing and newly established service-connected conditions. The VCAA requires VA to assist the veteran in obtaining evidence necessary for his claims, but given that resolution of these issues does not depend on additional evidence, no further assistance is needed.
- Claimed conditions
- laceration of the left knee, degenerative disc disease of L4-L5 and L5-S1 with right lumbar radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 29, 2004
- Citation
- 0417263
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied an initial disability rating in excess of 10 percent for the residuals of a laceration of the left knee with skin graft and denied entitlement to an effective date prior to September 30, 1991, for the grant of service connection for degenerative disc disease of L4-L5 and L5-S1 with right lumbar radiculopathy.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the veteran's residuals of a laceration of the left knee warrant a 30 percent evaluation, effective September 9, 1997.
- Granted
The Board has confirmed and continued the initial evaluations for the veteran's service-connected left knee disabilities, including residuals of a laceration, degenerative changes, laceration scar, tibial deformity, tenderness of distal anterior femoral cutaneous nerve, and tenderness of neuroma proximal saphenous nerve. The current 10 percent evaluations under Diagnostic Code 5299-5257 for the residuals of a laceration are not higher than what is warranted based on the evidence.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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