The Board has granted service connection for migraine headaches secondary to service-connected bilateral hearing loss. The issues of entitlement to a compensable evaluation for hemorrhoids and a postoperative scar on the right breast are not yet ready for appellate review.
The deciding factor: Service connection is established as the veteran's current diagnosis of migraine headaches is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected bilateral hearing loss.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches, hemorrhoids, postoperative scar on the right breast
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 13, 2005
- Citation
- 0501077
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