The Board has determined that the Veteran's fibrocystic breast disease is etiologically related to her active service, and she is granted service connection for this condition. The Board also found no evidence of a direct relationship between the Veteran's left ear pain and her cervical spine DDD or any other service-connected disability, thus denying service connection for left ear pain.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the Veteran's left ear pain was more likely due to focal pathology within the inner ear itself or the cranial nerves serving it, rather than being secondary to her service-connected cervical spine DDD.
- Claimed conditions
- Fibrocystic breast disease, Left ear pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 14, 2017
- Citation
- 1757984
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