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Review Question - QID 218684

Sever's Disease summary Diagnosis is made clinically with tenderness over the calcaneal apophysis with foot radiographs showing sclerosis and fragmentation of the calcaneal apophysis.  QID: 218684 (SBQ22PE.74)
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QID 218684 (Type "218684" in App Search)
A 14-year-old male basketball player has entered his peak growth phase, growing an additional four inches in the last nine months. He just finished playing a travel basketball season and has been working with an agility coach daily in preparation for his upcoming high school basketball tryouts. Over the last two weeks, he has noted increasing pain, erythema, and swelling over his heel that gets worse when running drills. On exam, he has tenderness with a squeeze test over the affected area and has difficulty performing a single-leg heel raise when compared to the unaffected extremity. A radiograph of his symptomatic extremity is shown in Figure A. What is the most likely diagnosis?
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