The Board finds that the veteran does not have any of the claimed conditions during service or due to herbicide exposure.,The Board finds that the veteran does not have a renal condition, bladder condition, right hydrocelectomy, or pain and loss of mobility of the bilateral lower extremities due to herbicide exposure.,The Board finds that the veteran does not have atypical cutaneous t-cell infiltrate in skin (claimed as skin cancer) due to herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence of any of the claimed conditions during service, and there is no competent medical evidence linking any of these disabilities to herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- atypical cutaneous t-cell infiltrate in skin (claimed as skin cancer), renal condition, bladder condition, right hydrocelectomy, pain and loss of mobility of the bilateral lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 5, 2008
- Citation
- 0830264
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