Kenji Takagi
Japanese orthopedic surgeon
About Kenji Takagi
Lived 1888 – 1963 (aged 74–75). Kenji Takagi was a Japanese orthopedic surgeon.
Professor Kenji Takagi (1888–1963) was a Japanese orthopedic surgeon, noted for being one of the first people to carry out a successful arthroscopy of the knee.
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. In 1922, he went to Germany to study the use of x-ray technology there. Following World War II, Takagi's pupil Masaki Watanabe, carried on his work.
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Who was Kenji Takagi?
Japanese orthopedic surgeon (1888–1963)
When was Kenji Takagi born?
Kenji Takagi was born in 1888 in Tokyo.
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Kenji Takagi died in 1963.
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Kenji Takagi was an orthopedic surgeon.
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Kenji Takagi was Japanese.
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