The Veteran's service records do not show any scars of the right buttock, inner left arm, left knee, or left ankle. The Board finds no current disability to support a grant of service connection.
The deciding factor: There are no diagnosed scars of the right buttock, inner left arm, left knee, and left ankle in the Veteran's medical records.
- Claimed conditions
- Scars of the right buttock, Scars of the inner left arm, Scars of the left knee, Scars of the left ankle
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 21, 2009
- Citation
- 0931416
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