Kenji Takagi

Professor Kenji Takagi (1888–1963)[1] was a Japanese orthopedic surgeon, noted for being the first to carry out a successful arthroscopy of the knee.[2]

This article is about the surgeon. For the footballer, see Kenji Takagi (footballer).

Takagi was attached to Tokyo University (where he succeeded Yoshinori Tashiro) in 1918 when he carried out the ground-breaking operation on a cadaver. He had been influenced by the work of Danish surgeon Severin Nordentoft.[3] In 1922, he went to Germany to study the use of x-ray technology there.[4] Following World War II, Takagi's pupil Masaki Watanabe, carried on his work.

References
  1. Operative Arthroscopy by John B. McGinty, Stephen S. Burkhart, Robert W. Jackson, Donald H. Johnson, John C. Richmond, p3
  2. Shoulderdoc.co.uk Lennard Funk, Advances in Shoulder Arthroscopy. Accessed 28 October 2012
  3. Operative Arthroscopy by John B. McGinty, Stephen S. Burkhart, Robert W. Jackson, Donald H. Johnson, John C. Richmond, p4
  4. Nakamura, Kozo (2006). "Professor Yoshinori Tashiro's contribution to Orthopedic Surgery". Journal of Orthopaedic Science. 11 (2): 115–117. doi:10.1007/s00776-006-1001-5. PMC 2780602. PMID 16568381.
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