The Board has denied the veteran's claim for service connection for status post excision of chalazions of both upper eyelids, finding that there is no evidence linking his current visual refractive error to the surgeries performed during service.
The deciding factor: There was no medical evidence connecting the veteran's current refractive error with the chalazion surgeries performed during service.
- Claimed conditions
- chalazion, refractive error (myopic astigmatism and presbyopia)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 13, 2006
- Citation
- 0607203
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