The Board found that the veteran's psoriatic arthritis of the hands and arthritis of the feet did not have their onset during service or within one year thereafter, and thus denied service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: There is no clinical evidence linking the current diagnoses to service.
- Claimed conditions
- arthritis of the feet, psoriatic arthritis of the hands
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 6, 2006
- Citation
- 0600266
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