The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for pain in the right side with excessive menstrual bleeding, finding no new and material evidence to reopen her previous denial from 1981.
The deciding factor: The evidence submitted did not provide a basis to reopen the claim as it was essentially repetitive of prior assertions without providing new or significant information.
- Claimed conditions
- pain in the right side, excessive menstrual bleeding
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 21, 2003
- Citation
- 0305368
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