The Board has granted service connection for osteoarthritis of the left knee, right hip, and lumbar spine as secondary to service-connected osteoarthritis of the right knee.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's osteoarthritis of the left knee, right hip, and lumbar spine are found to be proximately due to his service-connected osteoarthritis of the right knee.
- Claimed conditions
- Osteoarthritis of the left knee, Osteoarthritis of the right hip, Osteoarthritis of the lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 7, 2012
- Citation
- 1204637
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What this means for you
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
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- Whole decision: Granted
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