The Board found that the veteran's chronic thrombocytopenia was not incurred during active service and denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: No competent medical evidence established an etiological relationship between the claimed disorder and active service.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic thrombocytopenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- July 6, 2006
- Citation
- 0619713
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 952 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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