The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection due to lack of new and material evidence, and also denied his claim for generalized arthritis. The Board found that there was no evidence of arthritis during service or within one year after discharge.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was received to reopen the claim for hypertrophic arthritis of the interphalangeal articulations, and there is no evidence of arthritis in service or within a year post-discharge.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertrophic arthritis of the interphalangeal articulations, generalized arthritis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 7, 2001
- Citation
- 0106790
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