The Board denied service connection for an innocently acquired psychiatric disorder, including enuresis. The issues of service connection for a bilateral hip disorder, knee condition, ankle condition, and Crohn's disease as secondary to the hip condition are pending.
The deciding factor: Service connection was not granted due to lack of evidence showing that the current psychiatric disorder is related to service or any other event/condition during service.
- Claimed conditions
- Mixed Personality Disorder, Enuresis (Life-long)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 7, 2007
- Citation
- 0735144
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