The Veteran's service-connected wedge resection of the right lung middle lobe, for hamartoma, did not warrant a compensable rating during the appeal period.
The deciding factor: PFT results were all greater than 80 percent of predicted value, which does not meet the criteria for a compensable rating under Diagnostic Code 6844.
- Claimed conditions
- wedge resection of the right lung middle lobe, benign neoplasms
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 26, 2015
- Citation
- 1527477
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