The Board found that the Veteran does not have residuals of a right hip injury and denied his claim. The issue of entitlement to service connection for a right arm/elbow condition is remanded.
The deciding factor: VA examination did not find any evidence of current right hip or right arm/elbow disability, and the examiner could not substantiate the Veteran's reported in-service injuries from the claims file.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of a right hip injury, Right arm/elbow condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 29, 2011
- Citation
- 1124586
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