The Board finds that the veteran's chronic pansinusitis does not meet or nearly approximate the criteria for a rating in excess of 30 percent.
The deciding factor: The veteran's symptomatology falls squarely within the parameters of the 30 percent rating criteria, and there is no evidence of osteomyelitis or repeated surgeries for his sinus.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic pansinusitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- August 15, 2006
- Citation
- 0625000
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,738 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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