The Board has determined that the veteran's currently-diagnosed knee disabilities are not shown to be proximately due to his service-connected post-traumatic arthritis of the ankles, and thus denied both claims for secondary service connection.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence showing a current diagnosis related to either knee disability or establishing a medical nexus between the veteran's knee disorders and his service-connected ankle disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease, Right Knee, Degenerative Joint Disease, Left Knee
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 16, 2006
- Citation
- 0617635
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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