The Board denied the Veteran's claims of service connection for sinus polyps and TBI due to a lack of current diagnoses or evidence linking these conditions to his military service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not support current diagnoses of sinus polyps or TBI, and there was no in-service head injury documented.
- Claimed conditions
- sinus polyps, trauma brain injury (TBI)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 1, 2015
- Citation
- 1550177
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