[Helix reconstruction by tubular flap]. / Reconstrucción de hélix mediante colgajo tubular.

Tubular flaps, an early technique of reconstructive surgery, still are indicated for some diseases, such as post-traumatic helical reconstruction. In this disease, retroauricular skin is used to construct a bipedicled tube flap that later is transposed in various surgical stages to rebuild the missing structure. The procedure is ambulatory and carried out under local anesthesia in patients who are motivated to collaborate with this surgical approach.