The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been received to reopen the veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for a right pneumothorax. The evidence submitted since January 1991 is considered cumulative or duplicative, and does not establish a nexus between any incident in service and the right pneumothorax.
The deciding factor: The additional evidence provided by the veteran was found to be cumulative or duplicative of existing evidence, and did not provide a new or significant piece of information that would support reopening the claim for service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Pneumothorax
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 28, 2000
- Citation
- 0017048
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- Remanded (sent back)
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