The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have residual scarring as a result of burns to the left hand, and therefore service connection for this condition is denied.
The deciding factor: There is no current evidence of residual scarring on the left hand due to the inservice burn injury.
- Claimed conditions
- residual scarring
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 25, 2013
- Citation
- 1330834
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