The Board found that the veteran's multiple scars are not etiologically related to his service-connected right knee disability and denied his claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: Clinical evidence did not place the key clinical evidence in equipoise, and the veteran's contention of a causal link between his service-connected right knee disability and the 1992 bicycle accident was found less credible due to the lack of contemporaneous documentation.
- Claimed conditions
- Multiple scars
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0620542
Veterans Law Judge
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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