The Board has determined that the veteran does not have current left shoulder, right knee, or left knee disabilities that began during service or as a consequence of service. The veteran's skin conditions are secondary to his service-connected perianal dermatitis.
The deciding factor: There is no objective evidence of continuing symptomatology for any of the claimed disabilities and the veteran has not provided sufficient medical evidence to establish a nexus between current diagnoses and events that occurred during service.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Shoulder Pain, Right Knee Discomfort, Left Knee Instability, Psoriasis (Dermatitis), Lichen Simplex Chronicus, Folliculitis, Herpes Zoster
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0610775
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