The veteran's right hand disorder, tendonitis, is causally related to his service-connected residuals of right thumb injury.
The deciding factor: A competent medical opinion linked the veteran's right hand disability to his service-connected right thumb condition, supporting a grant of secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- right hand disorder, tendonitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 11, 2008
- Citation
- 0812170
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Dismissed
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