The Board denied service connection for postoperative residuals of an occipital meningioma and a pituitary microadenoma, finding that the Veteran's current conditions did not begin during or as a result of his military service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not support a nexus between the Veteran’s current postoperative residuals of an occipital meningioma and a pituitary microadenoma and his period of active duty.
- Claimed conditions
- postoperative residuals of an occipital meningioma, pituitary microadenoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 24, 2018
- Citation
- 18129322
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