The Board denied the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for a hip disability, including as secondary to a service-connected left knee disability.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show a causal relationship between the veteran's service-connected knee disability and his claimed hip disability.
- Claimed conditions
- myositis ossificans
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 23, 2006
- Citation
- 0626168
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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