The Board denied service connection for the claimed conditions, including sterility, benign prostatic hypertrophy, subclinical varicocele, spermatocele, male erectile disorder, and penile lesion, all secondary to service-connected epididymitis.
The deciding factor: Service connection was denied as the examiner found no medical evidence linking these conditions to the Veteran's in-service episode of epididymitis.
- Claimed conditions
- sterility, benign prostatic hypertrophy, subclinical varicocele, spermatocele, male erectile disorder, penile lesion
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 10, 2010
- Citation
- 1017294
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What this means for you
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