The Board has reopened the claim of service connection for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease due to new and material evidence presented since the last final denial. The case is now remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: New medical opinion supports the argument that the veteran's pre-existing Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease was aggravated during service, raising a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 23, 2006
- Citation
- 0618455
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