The Board has granted a separate 10 percent rating for a tender right foot plantar callous, secondary to scar tissue from the veteran's gunshot wound. The main issue of a higher rating for the gunshot wound itself remains denied.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner opined that the veteran's callous was probably secondary to the scar tissue in his foot as a result of the gunshot wound.
- Claimed conditions
- right foot gunshot wound, painful plantar calluses
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- July 30, 2007
- Citation
- 0723306
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