Kenji Takagi

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

Professor Kenji Takagi (18881963)[1] was a Japanese orthopedic surgeon, noted for being the first to carry out a successful arthroscopy of the knee.[2]

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. Kozo Nakamura, "Professor Yoshinori Tashiro’s contribution to Orthopedic Surgery", Journal of Orthopedic Science2006 March; 11(2): 115–117. Accessed 28 October 2012
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, March 03, 2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.