The Board granted service connection for onychomycosis of both feet as residuals of cold injury, but remanded the issue of whether other lower extremity conditions are related to cold exposure.
The deciding factor: It is at least as likely as not that the Veteran's onychomycosis of both feet is secondary to cold injury in service. The Board will seek an additional medical opinion regarding other potential residuals of cold injury, such as neuropathy, before making a final determination.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of cold injury of the lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 25, 2009
- Citation
- 0907100
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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