INTRODUCTION
Repair of inguinal hernia is one of the commonest surgical procedures performed worldwide. The lifetime risk for men is 27% and for women, it is 3%.1
“No disease of the human body, belonging to the province of the surgeon, requires in its treatment, a better combination of accurate, anatomical knowledge with surgical skill than hernia in all its variants.”
Sir Astley Paston Cooper,
The Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Inguinal
and Congenital Hernia, Cox, London, 1804
“I know more than hundred surgeons whom I would cheerfully allow to remove my gallbladder but only one to whom I should like to expose my inguinal canal.”
Sir Heneage Ogilvie