The Board has determined that the veteran did not submit new and material evidence to reopen his claim for service connection for bilateral knee chondromalacia, resulting in a denial of this request.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence was either cumulative or redundant of previous records and did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral knee chondromalacia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 14, 2005
- Citation
- 0533732
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