The Board has granted a 30 percent disability rating for the veteran's service-connected vaginitis, which is the maximum schedular rating possible.
The deciding factor: The symptoms of frequent vaginal infections were found to approximate the criteria for a 30 percent evaluation under Diagnostic Code 7611, representing the maximum schedular rating available for this condition.
- Claimed conditions
- vaginitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- September 21, 2006
- Citation
- 0629912
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- Partly granted
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- Granted
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- Dismissed
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