The Board has granted the veteran's claim for service connection of a neuropsychiatric disability, which is related to his service-connected right testicle disability.
The deciding factor: Specific phobia is directly related to the veteran's loss of use of the right testicle due to service-connected epididymitis with atrophy of the right testicle (loss of use).
- Claimed conditions
- neuropsychiatric disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- November 24, 2004
- Citation
- 0431295
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
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