The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for avascular necrosis, finding that it is secondary to his service-connected PTSD.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence established a link between alcoholism (a manifestation of service-connected PTSD) and avascular necrosis.
- Claimed conditions
- avascular necrosis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 16, 2010
- Citation
- 1026738
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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