The Board found that new and material evidence had not been received to reopen the claim of service connection for residuals of a stress fracture of the left lower extremity.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- stress fracture of the left lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 23, 2007
- Citation
- 0705262
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