The Board has determined that the Veteran's appeal for service connection for brow frown, seizures, and neurogenic bladder was withdrawn. The claim of entitlement to service connection for total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oopherectomy was previously denied in March 1996 and January 1997 due to lack of new and material evidence. The Veteran's claim has been reopened based on the receipt of a December 2002 correspondence indicating her headaches were related to her service-connected skull fracture.
The deciding factor: The Veteran submitted a December 2002 correspondence indicating that her headaches were caused by her in-service skull fracture, which is service connected. This evidence was new and material as it relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim of entitlement to service connection for migraine headaches.
- Claimed conditions
- Disfigurement of the face (brow frown), Seizures, Neurogenic bladder, incontinence
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 8, 2014
- Citation
- 1420686
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