The Board has determined that the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for thoracic spine disability is well-grounded and remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence, including a VA examination report and a private medical opinion, supports the finding that the current dorsal spine disorder may be related to an inservice injury. The Board has thus determined that there is sufficient evidence to grant service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- thoracic spine disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 29, 2000
- Citation
- 0005488
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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