The Board denied service connection for numbness in the fingers, finding no medical evidence of a nexus between the veteran's exposure to herbicides and his neuropathy of the right arm.
The deciding factor: There is no competent evidence relating the veteran's numbness in the fingers to service or any incident of service, including exposure to herbicides in service.
- Claimed conditions
- numbness in the fingers
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 10, 2008
- Citation
- 0811971
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