The Veteran's appeals for a higher disability rating and individual unemployability have been dismissed as he has withdrawn his appeals.

The Board found that the appellant's psychiatric impairment, characterized by symptoms involving sleep impairment, panic attacks more than once a week, disturbances of mood and difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships, but without evidence of obsessional rituals which interfere with routine activities, intermittent illogical, obscure or irrelevant speech, neglect of personal appearance and hygiene or difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances (including work or a worklike setting), approximates the criteria for a 50 percent disability rating. The appeal was denied as the appellant's symptoms did not meet the criteria for a higher rating.

The Board has granted service connection for panic disorder with agoraphobia, secondary to the veteran's service-connected foot disability. The issue of a rating in excess of 10 percent for depression with dysthymia secondary to foot disability is still pending.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for his service-connected coronary artery disease, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating based on the severity of his condition.