The Veteran's claims for service connection have been withdrawn. The Board has also remanded several issues related to his exposure at Camp Lejeune.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew his appeals and the Board is remanding additional claims due to pending evidence from Camp Lejeune.
- Claimed conditions
- kidney failure, bladder conditions (previously claimed as dysuria secondary to prostatitis, claimed as kidney/bladder condition), rashes on body inside thigh (previously claimed as herpes genital and groin rash), rashes on hands and abdomen (previously claimed as rashes on hands and abdomen), ganglion cyst of the right wrist, left foot/heel condition with calluses and blisters (previously claimed as left foot/heel condition with calluses and blisters), right foot/heel condition with calluses and blisters (previously claimed as right foot/heel condition with calluses and blisters), folliculitis (previously claimed as folliculitis), lump on the left forearm (previously claimed as lump on the left forearm), furuncle removed from the abdomen (previously claimed as furuncle removed from the abdomen), left-hand carpel tunnel syndrome, right-hand carpel tunnel syndrome
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Camp Lejeune water
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 8, 2019
- Citation
- 19135621
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,886 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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