The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been submitted to reopen the claim for service connection for an upper respiratory infection, but has found new and material evidence sufficient to reopen the claim for postoperative residuals of a right lung granuloma with chest pain. The Board concludes that there is insufficient medical evidence linking the current condition to military service.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not establish a clear link between the veteran's inservice symptoms and his subsequent thoracotomy, nor does it provide sufficient clinical data or rationale to support a conclusion of a nexus between the veteran's military service and the need for the 1979 surgery.
- Claimed conditions
- upper respiratory infection, postoperative residuals of a right lung granuloma with chest pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 17, 2000
- Citation
- 0018703
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