The Veteran's appeal seeking service connection for a left foot disability was dismissed. The Board granted service connection for right foot inversion as secondary to the service-connected right peroneal nerve injury and granted service connection for erectile dysfunction due to prostate cancer residuals or treatment.,The decision also noted that there is approximately even evidence on whether the Veteran's erectile dysfunction is proximately due to his service-connected prostate cancer.
The deciding factor: The Board dismissed the appeal of entitlement to service connection for a left foot disability as the Veteran clarified he was not seeking review of this issue. The right foot inversion claim was granted secondary to the service-connected right peroneal nerve injury, and erectile dysfunction was granted due to prostate cancer residuals or treatment.
- Claimed conditions
- Left foot disability, Right foot inversion, Erectile dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19183609
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Decisions by this judge: 1,990 · Granted: 35% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Granted
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- Dismissed
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