The Board found that the Veteran's skin disorders, diagnosed as actinic keratosis and seborrheic keratosis, are not due to disease or injury incurred in service, nor may they be presumed to have been incurred during service. The evidence does not support a finding of direct service connection.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner's opinion was that the Veteran's current skin conditions do not appear to be related to his active service, including any herbicide exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- Actinic Keratosis, Seborrheic Keratosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 30, 2011
- Citation
- 1137202
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has restored service connection for actinic keratosis and related scars, finding that the procedural requirements were not met in severing these conditions. The Board also found that the original grant of service connection was proper based on exposure to herbicide agents.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for initial and increased ratings for seborrheic keratosis, finding that the condition did not meet criteria for a compensable or higher rating prior to September 18, 2024, and from September 18, 2024, as it affected less than 20% of his total body area with no systemic therapy required.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that new and relevant evidence received since the August 2013 rating decision warrants readjudication of the claim for service connection for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), to include as secondary to service-connected thyroid cancer.,The Veteran's Seborrheic Keratosis claim remains denied due to lack of new and relevant evidence.
- Denied
The Board has denied service connection for multiple skin conditions and bilateral peripheral neuropathy of the four extremities, both claimed as due to herbicide exposure (Agent Orange), based on a lack of evidence establishing a causal relationship between these conditions and the Veteran's presumed in-service exposure.
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