The Board has not reopened the claim of service connection for abnormal pap smears and residuals of colposcopies and biopsies, but has denied the claims for chronic fatigue syndrome and a disorder manifested by sleep disturbances due to lack of new and material evidence.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was not received to reopen the claim of service connection for abnormal pap smears and residuals of colposcopies and biopsies. The Veteran's claimed conditions are not causally or etiologically related to her military service nor were they caused or aggravated by a service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- abnormal pap smears, sleep disturbances, chronic fatigue syndrome
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 18, 2019
- Citation
- 19194624
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