The Board granted service connection for esophageal stricture as secondary to pain medications used to treat his service-connected disabilities, and assigned a 10% evaluation for the shrapnel wound scar of the left parietal region.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's current esophageal stricture is found to be proximately due to or aggravated by his service-connected peptic ulcer disease and pain medications used to treat other service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- esophageal stricture, peptic ulcer disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- February 5, 2014
- Citation
- 1405104
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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