Thomas M. Link
Editor

2011

Significance, Techniques,
and New Developments

One of the first systematic histological evaluations of the role of joint cartilage was published in 1843 by Ecker and was entitled “Ueber Abnuetzung und Zerstoerung des Gelenkknorpels” [1]. In 1942, Bennett et al. stated that degeneration of articular cartilage is the origin of osteoarthritis and that the degeneration is an inherent senescence of the cartilaginous tissue [2].