The Board found no evidence of a service-connected condition causing the veteran's current symptoms and denied her claims for service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner did not find any underlying disorder or disease related to the veteran's in-service toxemia that caused her current symptoms, including the lipomas on her legs.
- Claimed conditions
- toxemia, swollen legs, bilateral lipoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 10, 2005
- Citation
- 0521675
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