The Board has determined that the veteran does not have a genitourinary disability due to disease or injury incurred in service, including exposure to herbicides. Therefore, service connection for this condition is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no competent evidence linking any current genitourinary disorder to service, including to any herbicides exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- genitourinary disorder, IgA nephropathy, hydroceles, spermatoceles, varicoceles
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 20, 2006
- Citation
- 0618098
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What this means for you
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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