Inguinal hernia repair

Abstract

Cheatle was the first surgeon to mention the retroinguinal space of Bogros, used to perform laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair. He performed high ligation of the indirect hernia sac using a posterior preperitoneal approach. Henry “rediscovered” Cheatle’s work in 1926 and Jennings in the United States wrote a paper in 1942 about the same approach, labeling it a 'ʼnew method.” Many subsequent surgeons refined this autogenous approach, with Nyhus as its main proponent in the early 1960s [1].