The Board has determined that the Veteran's current left wrist tenosynovitis and ganglion cyst are not related to her military service, and therefore denied her claim for service connection.
The deciding factor: Medical opinions provided by VA examiners found no evidence of a chronic condition in service or post-service continuity of symptoms, and concluded that the Veteran's current conditions were less likely than not related to her military service.
- Claimed conditions
- left wrist tenosynovitis, left wrist ganglion
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 12, 2011
- Citation
- 1134004
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for left and right wrist tenosynovitis, finding that the Veteran's current conditions were caused by her military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board denied an effective date prior to September 13, 2012, for the award of a separate compensable rating for left wrist tenosynovitis.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for several conditions, granted a 20 percent rating for chronic fatigue syndrome and a compensable rating for allergic rhinitis, but denied higher ratings for other conditions.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for bilateral pes cavus, left wrist tenosynovitis, neck sprain with cervicalgia and cervical spondylosis, nasal turbinate hypertrophy, and seborrheic dermatitis, tinea pedis, and onychomycosis of the nails.
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