The Board has determined that the veteran's claimed disabilities are not due to VA treatment and have therefore denied his claim under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence showing that any of the claimed disabilities are proximately due to VA fault or an event not reasonably foreseeable.
- Claimed conditions
- deformity of the tip of the nose, respiratory and pulmonary disorders, left ear scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 17, 2006
- Citation
- 0610850
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Decisions by this judge: 2,374 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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- Granted
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- Partly granted
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