The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a current left knee disability, and therefore cannot grant service connection for this condition. The issue of entitlement to service connection for closed left foot fracture remains unresolved.
The deciding factor: The June 2015 VA examiner found no current left knee disability in the Veteran's claims file, despite previous diagnoses of degenerative joint disease of both knees.
- Claimed conditions
- Closed Left Foot Fracture, Degenerative Joint Disease of both knees
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 17, 2015
- Citation
- 1548413
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