The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for bilateral ankle and right knee conditions secondary to his service-connected gunshot wound to the right hip. The decision found no chronic bilateral ankle disability and noted that there was no medical evidence of a current bilateral ankle disorder.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence of a current bilateral ankle disability, and the veteran's claim must be denied because there is no nexus between his service-connected residuals of gunshot wound to the right hip and his claimed bilateral ankle condition.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral ankle condition, right knee condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 20, 2006
- Citation
- 0632639
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