The Board has found that the Veteran's rash on hands and feet is not causally or etiologically related to service. As such, the claim for service connection for this condition is denied.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the skin condition in service was transient and did not relate to petroleum exposure, and the current skin condition was intermittent and resolved with treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- rash on hands, rash on feet
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 18, 2014
- Citation
- 1417547
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