The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for bilateral leg skin conditions, finding that there is no direct evidence linking these conditions to his military service. The Board also found that secondary service connection based on herbicide exposure was not warranted due to lack of a positive association between such exposure and the claimed conditions.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations did not find any in-service incurrence or aggravation of the claimed skin conditions, and there is no evidence linking these conditions to military service. The Board also noted that secondary service connection based on herbicide exposure was not established as there is no positive association between such exposure and the claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Seborrheic Dermatitis, Actinic Keratosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 4, 2020
- Citation
- 20071099
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