The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a left upper arm and elbow injury secondary to his service-connected bilateral hallux valgus with degenerative arthritis, finding no new and material evidence to reopen the claim.
The deciding factor: No probative evidence was submitted that relates an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim or raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- left upper arm injury, elbow injury
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 30, 2008
- Citation
- 0821406
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