The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for right and left lung masses, finding that they were not due to herbicide exposure or any other service-connected condition.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that there was no evidence linking the lung masses to herbicide exposure or any other service-connected condition.
- Claimed conditions
- right lung mass residuals, left lung mass
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 23, 2014
- Citation
- 1456313
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