The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected residuals of a shell fragment wound involving the right lower knee and right lower extremity neuralgia warrant a 10 percent evaluation each, as there is no evidence to support higher ratings.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not demonstrate additional impairment or functional loss beyond what is already accounted for by the current 10 percent evaluations under Diagnostic Codes 7803-4 and 8520.
- Claimed conditions
- residual scarring of the right lower knee, right lower extremity neuralgia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- November 29, 2005
- Citation
- 0532193
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