The Board has granted service connection for right hip arthritis, but denied service connection for left hip disorder and bilateral leg disorder. The effective date is not specified.
The deciding factor: Right hip arthritis was found to be incurred in active service due to military service exposure, while the other conditions were either not shown to be related or aggravated by service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Leg Disorder, Hip Disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- September 29, 2004
- Citation
- 0427108
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