The Board denied service connection for cold injury residuals of the bilateral feet and hands, finding no current disability in either case.
The deciding factor: There is no competent medical evidence of a current diagnosis of disabilities of the bilateral feet or hands.
- Claimed conditions
- cold injury residuals of the bilateral feet, cold injury residuals of the bilateral hands
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 9, 2009
- Citation
- 0913232
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- Denied
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- Granted
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