The Veteran's current abdominal disability, including a surgical scar and an incisional hernia, is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected low back disability.
The deciding factor: The abdominal disability is related to the Veteran's service-connected low back disability as it developed from surgery performed for that condition via abdominal entry.
- Claimed conditions
- abdominal superficial scar, incisional hernia, various gastrointestinal symptoms
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 16, 2014
- Citation
- 1431913
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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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