The Board denied the Veteran's attempt to reopen her service connection claim for postoperative residuals of left frontal bone surgery and skin lesion, finding that new evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the underlying claim.
The deciding factor: The newly received evidence does not show aggravation of the pre-existing condition during military service or provide any additional information necessary to substantiate the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- postoperative residuals of left frontal bone surgery, skin lesion
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 18, 2010
- Citation
- 1010300
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