The Board has denied the veteran's claims for higher initial evaluations for Osgood-Schlatter's disease of the right knee and a postoperative right knee scar.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support an evaluation in excess of 10 percent for Osgood-Schlatter's disease, and there is no indication that the veteran's current disability is related to service or any other presumptive exposure basis.
- Claimed conditions
- Osgood-Schlatter's disease of the right knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 10, 2006
- Citation
- 0624124
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