The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for trigeminal neuralgia with headaches and facial pain, sebaceous cyst, and benign prostatic hypertrophy with acute prostatitis, all claimed as secondary to herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: The competent medical evidence of record does not support a finding that a relationship exists between the veteran's diagnosed conditions and his military service, to include alleged herbicide exposure therein.
- Claimed conditions
- trigeminal neuralgia with headaches and facial pain, sebaceous cyst, benign prostatic hypertrophy with acute prostatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 13, 2008
- Citation
- 0815723
Veterans Law Judge
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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