The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been received to reopen the Veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral eye disability. The case is remanded for further development, including obtaining an opinion on the etiology of all eye disabilities present during the period of the claim.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was submitted which relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the Veteran's claim of service connection for a bilateral eye disability.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral eye disability, retinitis pigmentosa, pseudophakia, aphakia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 27, 2017
- Citation
- 1702303
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