The Board has remanded the claim for service connection for a skin disability, variably diagnosed, due to insufficient medical opinions regarding the relationship between the Veteran's in-service exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune and her current skin disabilities. The VA examiner is requested to address whether the delay of 16 years between the cessation of exposure and onset of symptoms affects the determination of nexus.
The deciding factor: The Board found the medical opinions insufficient due to their failure to adequately explain why a significant temporal gap between exposure and symptom onset does not affect the determination of medical nexus.
- Claimed conditions
- dermatitis, status post basal cell carcinoma, scars, pseudoporphyria cutanea tarda
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- Camp Lejeune water
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 9, 2022
- Citation
- 22062656
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What this means for you
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