The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection of left ankle osteoarthritis as secondary to his service-connected left foot fibromatosis.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran’s current left ankle osteoarthritis was at least as likely as not aggravated by his service-connected left foot fibromatosis.
- Claimed conditions
- left ankle osteoarthritis, left foot fibromatosis
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 20, 2019
- Citation
- 19195807
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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