The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the veteran's claim for service connection for a skin condition of the feet, including frozen feet. The veteran presented medical records linking his current foot disorder to an injury sustained during active service.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was provided by private medical reports indicating a causal relationship between the veteran's current foot disorder and his active service.
- Claimed conditions
- skin condition of the feet, frozen feet
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 16, 2002
- Citation
- 0204653
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claim due to a pre-decisional error in failing to obtain an adequate medical opinion regarding the Veteran's skin condition of the feet, which is related to service. The Veteran contends that his symptoms began during service and have continued since then.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for other specified trauma and stressor related disorder, but denied service connection for athlete's foot and frozen feet. The Veteran was found to have symptoms consistent with other specified trauma-and-stressor-related disorder due to in-service events, while the evidence did not support a diagnosis of athlete's foot or frozen feet.
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