The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the previously denied claim of service connection for acute or subacute peripheral neuropathy due to exposure to herbicide agents used in Vietnam.
The deciding factor: New medical evidence, including a diagnosis of mild and severe peripheral neuropathy, supports reopening the claim based on the presumption of exposure to herbicide agents used in Vietnam.
- Claimed conditions
- Acute/subacute peripheral neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 8, 2003
- Citation
- 0326754
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