The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been received to reopen the veteran's claim for service connection for traumatic arthritis of the right knee. The Board also found that this condition is due to service trauma, thus granting service connection.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions provided by Drs. Espinoza and Scott linking the veteran's right knee arthritis to his in-service motor vehicle accident are considered significant enough to warrant reopening the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- traumatic arthritis of the right knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 13, 2001
- Citation
- 0104450
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- Dismissed
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