The Board found that a psychiatric disorder was not incurred or aggravated by service and denied the claim. For Hepatitis C, the Board noted that further examination is needed as the claims folder did not accompany the veteran during the examination.
The deciding factor: Further examination is required to determine the etiology of any present Hepatitis C disorder due to lack of access to the claims file.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric disorder, Hepatitis C
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 13, 2005
- Citation
- 0533648
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