The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's right renal cyst / diabetic cystopathy, finding that it is caused by his service-connected diabetes mellitus.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran had a right kidney cyst during the pendency of this claim and attributed its etiology to his service-connected diabetes mellitus.
- Claimed conditions
- right renal cyst, diabetic cystopathy
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 13, 2019
- Citation
- 19185779
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