The Board has granted the veteran increased evaluations for his service-connected right wrist fracture, left leg muscle injury due to gunshot wound, and left leg gunshot wound scar. The nasal septum deviation is rated as noncompensable.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support a finding of complete or more than 50 percent obstruction of the nasal passages on both sides, nor does it show ankylosis of the right wrist or neurological impairment of the right wrist.
- Claimed conditions
- Nasal septum deviation, Right wrist fracture, Left leg muscle injury (gunshot wound), Left leg gunshot wound scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- September 30, 2005
- Citation
- 0526724
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