The Veteran has an additional disability of scarring on her neck as a result of VA treatment, specifically PUVA therapy. The Board finds that this event was not reasonably foreseeable and grants compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 for residuals of burns on the neck.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows an additional disability due to PUVA treatment performed at a VAMC without informed consent, which is considered an unforeseeable event.
- Claimed conditions
- scarring, burns
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 11, 2011
- Citation
- 1137943
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