The Veteran's service-connected appendectomy scar is granted a disability rating of 10 percent effective January 9, 2012. The Board found the evidence sufficient to grant this rating based on pain and itching.
The deciding factor: The VA examination results and treatment records indicated that the Veteran's single appendectomy scar was painful but not unstable since at least March 2013, warranting a 10 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 7804.
- Claimed conditions
- Appendectomy scar
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 3, 2024
- Citation
- 24000261
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Decisions by this judge: 2,677 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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