Thurber v. Brown
United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
1Opinion of the Court
KRAMER, Associate Judge:
Appellant, Leslie N. Thurber, appeals a September 27, 1991, decision of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board or BVA) denying entitlement to service connection for ankylosing spondylitis (a form of rheumatoid arthritis that affects the spine, Dor-land’s ILLUSTRATED MEDICAL DICTIONARY 1566 (27th ed.1988)) on the basis that this condition was not incurred in or aggravated by service. We vacate the BVA decision and remand the matter.
I.Procedural Background
The BVA, in support of its decision, referenced certain pages of a medical treatise, “Daniel J. McCarty, Arthritis and…
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