The VA has determined that the veteran's perforated right tympanic membrane resulting from treatment at a VA ENT clinic on August 31, 2000 is compensable under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151.
The deciding factor: The Board concluded that the right tympanic perforation occurred as a result of the August 31, 2000 treatment at a VA medical facility and was not a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- perforated right tympanic membrane
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 30, 2006
- Citation
- 0619287
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