The Board has determined that the Veteran's chronic skin disorder is due to an undiagnosed illness and meets the criteria for service connection.
The deciding factor: The Veteran exhibited objective indications of a chronic disability (skin symptoms) that became manifest during his service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations, and these symptoms cannot be attributed to any known clinical diagnosis.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic skin disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2012
- Citation
- 1235569
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claim for a higher rating for his service-connected chronic skin disorder is denied as there was no increase in severity within the one-year period prior to his June 21, 2018, claim.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical opinions and missing private treatment records. The Veteran's claim for service connection for chronic skin disorder, which includes morphea, is pending.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claims for service connection for a chronic skin disorder, an initial schedular compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss, and an initial schedular rating in excess of 30 percent for posttraumatic stress disorder were all denied. The Board found that the evidence did not support these claims.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for hypertension, erectile dysfunction, hematuria, and chronic skin disorder due to incomplete or insufficient opinions in previous examinations. The claims are being returned for further development.
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