The Board has denied the veteran's claims of entitlement to service connection for skin disease, liver disease, and kidney disease as a result of exposure to herbicides due to lack of evidence supporting these conditions.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence showing that the veteran has any of the claimed diseases (skin disease, liver disease, or kidney disease) diagnosed in his case. The diseases are not recognized under applicable statutes and regulations as presumptively service-connected based on herbicide exposure in Vietnam.
- Claimed conditions
- skin disease, liver disease, kidney disease
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 27, 2006
- Citation
- 0618855
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What this means for you
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