The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection for arthritis as a residual of an allergic reaction to penicillin, and will now consider whether this condition was incurred in or aggravated by active service.
The deciding factor: New evidence submitted since the previous final decision supports reopening the claim for service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Arthritis, Degenerative Joint Disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 25, 2003
- Citation
- 0325063
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What this means for you
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