The veteran's daughter is entitled to a monetary allowance as a child of a Vietnam veteran with spina bifida.
The deciding factor: The expert medical opinion established that the appellant has both disability that is a form of spina bifida and disability that is a manifestation of spina bifida, meeting the criteria for the benefit sought.
- Claimed conditions
- occipital cephalocele, hydrocephalus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 3, 2006
- Citation
- 0619462
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