The Veteran's recurrent pterygium of the right eye is currently rated at 10 percent, effective from January 9, 2001. The Board has awarded a 10 percent evaluation for the entire appeal period prior to September 29, 2009.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's recurrent pterygium of the right eye was shown to have symptoms such as redness, irritation, itchiness, occasional subjective complaints of blurriness, pain, dry-eye symptoms, and occasional stringy mucus discharge. These findings are more closely analogous to chronic active nontrachomous conjunctivitis, which commensurate to a 10 percent evaluation under Diagnostic Code 6018.
- Claimed conditions
- Recurrent pterygium of the right eye
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- September 7, 2012
- Citation
- 1230784
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