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 ‘‘new method.’’ Many subsequent surgeons refined this autogenous approach, with Nyhus as its main proponent in the early 1960s [1].
