The Board has determined that the Veteran's sensory polyneuropathy/small fiber polyneuropathy of the bilateral upper and lower extremities had its onset during service, and therefore grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The continuity of symptomatology demonstrated during service and thereafter supports a finding of service connection for the claimed disability.
- Claimed conditions
- sensory polyneuropathy, small fiber polyneuropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 18, 2019
- Citation
- 19129868
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,828 · Granted: 32% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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