Sir,?At the discussion following an address read before the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases, Colonel Burke (1931) remarked that what was needed in modern syphilology was a little more imagination and a little less bowing before tradition and the consecrated teaching of the arid textbook. The present writer quotes these words both as apology and excuse for the following theore...

Background: There is a common perception among surgeons that Asian tibiae are significantly more varus compared to non-Asians, contributed both by an acute medial tibial proximal angle (MPTA) and diaphyseal bowing. Insight into the normative morphology of tibia allows generation knowledge towards disease processes subsequently planning for corrective surgeries. Methods: Computed tomography (CT)...