The Board has denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a right eye disability, finding that there is no current disorder of the right eye for which he may be service-connected.
The deciding factor: Service connection was not established as the examiner found no medical nexus between military service and any currently diagnosed right eye pterygium.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Eye Pterygium
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 21, 2008
- Citation
- 0836095
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- Granted
The Veteran's right eye pterygium resulted in decreased visual acuity and was not disfiguring. A 10 percent rating has been granted for the period prior to October 31, 2017.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection and initial evaluations of various knee and eye disabilities to the RO for further development. The Veteran's right eye pterygium is currently rated as noncompensable, while his left shoulder impingement syndrome and patellofemoral syndromes in both knees are each rated at 10 percent.
- Denied
The VA denied a compensable disability rating for the veteran's service-connected right eye pterygium, finding that his vision did not meet the criteria for a higher evaluation.
- Granted
The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for a right eye pterygium. The case is now remanded for further development.
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