The Board denied reopening the claim for service connection for peripheral neuropathy due to lack of new and material evidence, as well as insufficient evidence showing acute or subacute peripheral neuropathy related to herbicide exposure.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was submitted to reopen the claim, nor did the existing evidence show that the veteran's peripheral neuropathy was caused by herbicide exposure in Vietnam.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral Neuropathy, Hepatitis C
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 5, 2006
- Citation
- 0613240
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What this means for you
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- Dismissed
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