The Board denied service connection for a prostate condition, postoperative gall stones, kidney stones, anal polyps, inguinal hernia, rectal hernia, and incisional hernia as they were not related to the Veteran's service or his service-connected chronic duodenal ulcer.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show that any of these conditions were incurred in or aggravated by service or secondary to the service-connected chronic duodenal ulcer.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate condition, postoperative gall stones, kidney stones, anal polyps, inguinal hernia, rectal hernia, incisional hernia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 5, 2009
- Citation
- 0908134
What this means for you
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