The Board denied service connection for a right leg disability, finding no current chronic right leg disability and noting the veteran's consistent denial of any such condition. Service connection was granted for left leg and left hip injury.
The deciding factor: There is no medical diagnosis of a current chronic right leg disability, to include cellulitis.
- Claimed conditions
- right leg cellulitis, left leg injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- August 14, 2008
- Citation
- 0827611
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted service connection for right ankle and leg cellulitis, finding that the Veteran's current disability is related to an in-service condition.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, a respiratory condition, otitis externa, gastroenteritis, a sleeping disorder, and a left leg injury as the evidence did not support current diagnoses of these conditions.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's right leg cellulitis is rated at a 10 percent disability rating prior to June 15, 2020. From June 15, 2020, the condition warrants no higher than a 10 percent disability rating.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has denied reopening and granting service connection for a left leg injury and contusions of the face and chest, as new evidence does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claims.
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