The Veteran's appeal does not involve service connection for a psychiatric disability, right inguinal hernia, testicular pain and swelling, or RLE radiculopathy.,The Board denied the Veteran's claims of service connection for these conditions.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence showing that the Veteran has current diagnoses of any of the claimed conditions. The medical opinions provided do not support a finding of service connection for any of the issues on appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric Disability (other than unspecified depressive disorder), Right Inguinal Hernia, Testicular Pain and Swelling, Radiculopathy of the Right Lower Extremity (RLE)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 22, 2020
- Citation
- 20048949
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- Denied
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