The Board denied reopening the claims for service connection due to lack of new and material evidence.
The deciding factor: No new or material evidence was submitted to support the reopened claims.
- Claimed conditions
- gynecological disability, urinary disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 18, 2005
- Citation
- 0531252
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