The Board denied service connection for a left lower leg and left ankle disability, as well as an increased rating for the veteran's service-connected left foot disability.
The deciding factor: There is no medical evidence of a left lower leg or left ankle disability during service or many years thereafter; and there is no nexus between any incident of service and these disabilities. The veteran's left foot disability does not cause or aggravate his left lower leg or left ankle disability.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a gunshot wound to the left foot, residuals of a fracture of the left fibula, claimed as a left leg condition, with post-traumatic arthritis and loss of motion of the left ankle
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 30, 2009
- Citation
- 0903441
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