Kenji Takagi

{{short description|Japanese orthopaedic surgeon and arthroscopy pioneer}}

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Professor Kenji Takagi (1888–1963)Operative Arthroscopy by John B. McGinty, Stephen S. Burkhart, Robert W. Jackson, Donald H. Johnson, John C. Richmond, p3 was a Japanese orthopedic surgeon, noted for being one of the first people to carry out a successful arthroscopy of the knee.[http://www.shoulderdoc.co.uk/article.asp?article=110 Shoulderdoc.co.uk Lennard Funk, Advances in Shoulder Arthroscopy. Accessed 28 October 2012]{{Cite journal |last=Takagi |first=K. |date=July 1982 |title=The classic. Arthroscope. Kenji Takagi. J. Jap. Orthop. Assoc., 1939 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7047039 |journal=Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research |issue=167 |pages=6–8 |issn=0009-921X |pmid=7047039}}

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.Operative Arthroscopy by John B. McGinty, Stephen S. Burkhart, Robert W. Jackson, Donald H. Johnson, John C. Richmond, p4 In 1922, he went to Germany to study the use of x-ray technology there.{{Cite journal |pmc = 2780602|year = 2006|last1 = Nakamura|first1 = Kozo |title = Professor Yoshinori Tashiro's contribution to Orthopedic Surgery|journal = Journal of Orthopaedic Science |volume = 11|issue = 2|pages = 115–117|pmid = 16568381|doi = 10.1007/s00776-006-1001-5}} Following World War II, Takagi's pupil Masaki Watanabe, carried on his work.{{Cite journal |last=Solheim |first=Eirik |last2=Grøntvedt |first2=Torbjørn |last3=Mølster |first3=Anders |last4=Uppheim |first4=Gisle |last5=Gay |first5=Caryl |last6=Dimmen |first6=Sigbjørn |date=2022-09-01 |title=Milestones in the early history of arthroscopy |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773157X22000662 |journal=Journal of Orthopaedic Reports |language=en |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=100060 |doi=10.1016/j.jorep.2022.100060 |issn=2773-157X|doi-access=free }}