Letter to the Editor in re: Chen M-J, Yang C, Zhang X-H, Qiu Y-T: Synovial chondromatosis originally arising in the lower compartment of the temporomandibular joint: A case report and literature review. J Craniomaxillofac Surg 39: 459-462, 2011

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In re: Chen M-J, Yang C, Zhang X-H, Qiu Y-T: Synovial chondroma-tosis originally arising in the lower compartment of the temporoman-dibular joint: a case report and literature review. J Craniomaxillofac Surg 39: 459-462, 2011.The paper was read with interest and the authors are to be complimented on their report. With the imprimatur of the Editor the writer would advise that our earlier literature review (Norman et al., 1988) showed that the first report of temporoman-dibular osteochondromatosis was made by Baron Albrecht von Hal-ler in his magnum opus Elementa physiologiae corpons humani (1764). The first account in the modern era was by the preeminent German surgeon Georg Axhausen (1933).