The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a skin disorder involving the facial region and right shoulder and arm numbness, finding no current diagnosis related to service or established as secondary to a service-connected condition.
The deciding factor: There is no clinically identified underlying disability reasonably shown by the probative evidence of record to be etiologically related to the service connected residuals of pilonidal cyst for the veteran's right shoulder and arm numbness, and no current diagnosis of a skin disorder involving the facial region was found in the medical records.
- Claimed conditions
- skin disorder involving the facial region, right shoulder and arm numbness
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 18, 2006
- Citation
- 0611024
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