The Board has granted service connection for a bilateral knee condition, but the Veteran's claims for blurred vision and skin disability are remanded due to insufficient opinions regarding their etiology.
The deciding factor: An additional opinion is needed to address whether the Veteran's current eye conditions were caused by or aggravated by his service-connected allergic rhinitis.
- Claimed conditions
- Blurred Vision, Skin Disability
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 5, 2012
- Citation
- 1230385
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