The Board denied service connection for chronic peripheral polyneuropathy, finding no evidence of the condition during service or within a year of separation and no competent medical evidence linking it to herbicide exposure or any aspect of the veteran's period of service.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence demonstrating a link between any current chronic peripheral polyneuropathy and any aspect of the veteran's period of service, including herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral polyneuropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 22, 2008
- Citation
- 0816781
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