The usage of prosthetic devices in the surgery of parietal defect is, nowadays, essential for a good abdominal wall recovery and prevention of the hernia recurrence. A good and suitable textile allograft should poses one or more, ideally all, of the following characteristics: pliable, strong, non-allergenic and with perfect tissue integration behavior. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the immediate and long term tissue reaction of different textile allografts used in open surgery of inguinal hernia repair.
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