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History of arthroscopy

Marić Dušan M. (Institut za zdravstvenu zaštitu dece i omladine, Novi Sad - Klinika za dečju hirurgiju)
Garces Gerardo (Instituto Canario de Ortopedia u Traumatologia, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Espana)
Martinez Armando (Instituto Canario de Ortopedia u Traumatologia, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Espana)
Petković Lazar D. (Institut za zdravstvenu zaštitu dece i omladine, Novi Sad - Klinika za dečju hirurgiju)

Arthroscopy has developed as one of the branches of former cystoscopy. During the past 200 years a few people have made invaluable contributions to development of arthroscopy (Bozzini, Takagi, Watanabe) After the World War II scientific and technological progress was so fast that arthroscopy proved to be a valuable tool in orthopedics, not only as a diagnostic, but also as a therapeutic procedure.

Keywords: arthroscopy + history, diagnostic techniques and procedures, orthopedics