The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a current respiratory disability related to his service, and thus cannot establish service connection for benign calcified granuloma.
The deciding factor: There is no current diagnosis of disease in the Veteran's case, as he was diagnosed with benign asymptomatic calcified granulomata during an enlistment physical in 1957.
- Claimed conditions
- benign calcified granuloma, lung spots
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 23, 2018
- Citation
- 1817783
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