The Board has determined that the Veteran's right middle finger trauma with calcific tendonitis is attributable to service and grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The in-service report of a right middle finger injury with tendinitis, combined with post-service evidence consistent with such an injury, supports the finding of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Middle Finger Trauma, Calcific Tendonitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 9, 2009
- Citation
- 0942666
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