The Board has determined that there is no evidence of a separate ear or skin disorder causing fluid leakage from the Veteran's ears, and thus service connection cannot be established.
The deciding factor: There is no current diagnosis of an ear/skin disorder separate from the Veteran’s already service-connected dermatitis of the ears.
- Claimed conditions
- Ear disorder, Skin and/or neurological disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 6, 2021
- Citation
- 21000840
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