The Board denied reopening the claim for 1151 benefits and found no additional disability in the right lower extremity as a result of the December 1990 low back surgery.,The Veteran's service-connected left lower extremity neuropathy was not aggravated by the December 1990 low back surgery.
The deciding factor: There is no evidence showing any additional disability in the right lower extremity as a result of the December 1990 low back surgery, and the Board found that the Veteran's service-connected left lower extremity neuropathy was not aggravated by this procedure.
- Claimed conditions
- neuropathy of the RLE
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 13, 2016
- Citation
- 1640571
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