The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased evaluations and initial evaluations in excess of 10 percent for his left knee recurrent tendonitis with cartilage loss, right knee patellar tendonitis with cartilage loss, and laxity of the right knee. The effective dates were not specified.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not meet the criteria for an evaluation in excess of 10 percent for any of the veteran's conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Recurrent tendonitis with cartilage loss of the left knee, Laxity of the right knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 4, 2008
- Citation
- 0803951
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