The Board denied service connection for right-hand and left-hand disorders, including osteoarthritis, finding that the Veteran's current hand symptoms are not related to his service-connected bilateral hand abscesses.
The deciding factor: The VA opinions found no link between the Veteran's service-connected bilateral hand abscesses and his current osteoarthritis of the hands.
- Claimed conditions
- right-hand disorder, left-hand disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 30, 2022
- Citation
- 22066684
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