The Board has determined that the Veteran's right lower extremity thrombophlebitis is related to an injury he sustained in service, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a link between the Veteran's in-service injury and his current thrombophlebitis of the right lower extremity.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity thrombophlebitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 3, 2012
- Citation
- 1200062
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining her SSA records and scheduling VA examinations to assess the severity of her service-connected conditions.
- Denied
The Veteran's right lower extremity thrombophlebitis has been productive of persistent edema, stasis pigmentation, pain, fatigue and aching after prolonged standing or walking, intermittent ulceration, and palpable varicose veins. The Board finds that the symptoms do not warrant a rating in excess of 40 percent.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development due to recent information received.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development to determine if the Veteran's right lower extremity thrombophlebitis was caused by a soft tissue injury in service.
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