The Board finds that the Veteran's skin disabilities are related to his active duty service and grants entitlement to service connection.
The deciding factor: The private treatment provider linked the Veteran's exposure to Agent Orange during service with his current diagnoses, and VA examiners did not address this opinion in their evaluations of the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- skin disabilities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 12, 2015
- Citation
- 1501316
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a skin disability, finding that his current skin conditions did not manifest during or within one year after active duty and are not otherwise related to service.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted entitlement to special monthly compensation based on loss of use of the bilateral feet and service connection for skin disabilities due to service-connected bilateral pes planus.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The veteran was granted service connection for sarcoidosis and initial disability ratings of 50% for PTSD and 20% for radiculopathy of the left lower extremity. Other claims were denied or remanded.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's skin disabilities are proximately due to his service-connected diabetes mellitus, and the Board has granted service connection for these conditions as secondary to his diabetes.
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