Kenji Takagi

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

Professor Kenji Takagi (1888–1963)^[1] was a Japanese orthopedic surgeon, noted for being one of the first people to carry out a successful arthroscopy of the knee.^[2][3]

Kenji Takagi
Born	1888 (1888)
Died	1963 (aged 74–75)
Scientific career
Fields	Orthopaedics, Arthroscopy

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.^[4] In 1922, he went to Germany to study the use of x-ray technology there.^[5] Following World War II, Takagi's pupil Masaki Watanabe, carried on his work.^[6]

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. Takagi, K. (July 1982). "The classic. Arthroscope. Kenji Takagi. J. Jap. Orthop. Assoc., 1939". Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (167): 6–8. ISSN 0009-921X. PMID 7047039.
4. Operative Arthroscopy by John B. McGinty, Stephen S. Burkhart, Robert W. Jackson, Donald H. Johnson, John C. Richmond, p4
5. 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.
6. Solheim, Eirik; Grøntvedt, Torbjørn; Mølster, Anders; Uppheim, Gisle; Gay, Caryl; Dimmen, Sigbjørn (2022-09-01). "Milestones in the early history of arthroscopy". Journal of Orthopaedic Reports. 1 (3): 100060. doi:10.1016/j.jorep.2022.100060. ISSN 2773-157X.