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By this age normal variants are a less common cause for concern, and foot pain is more likely to result from a trauma, a structural cause, an infection, or, rarely, a tumor. An adolescent presenting with persisting foot pain should therefore be investigated to determine a diagnosis to explain their symptoms.
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Fixsen JA. The foot. In: d’A Benson M, Fixsen J, Macnicol MF, Parsch K, editors. Children’s orthopaedics and fractures. 3rd ed. London/Dordrecht/Heidelberg/New York: Springer; 2010.
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Robb, J. (2015). The Painful Foot in Adolescence. In: Paediatric Orthopaedic Diagnosis. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2392-4_38
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