The Board has granted secondary service connection for inflammatory arthritis of the elbows, right wrist, and ankles due to service-connected pulmonary sarcoidosis.
The deciding factor: VA medical evidence established a link between the veteran's service-connected pulmonary sarcoidosis and her current inflammatory arthritis of multiple joints.
- Claimed conditions
- Inflammatory arthritis of the ankles, Inflammatory arthritis of the elbows, Osteoarthritis of the right wrist
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 9, 2006
- Citation
- 0606878
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