Resumo

SANTANDER, Brenda; GARCIA, Mildred  e  ALIAGA, Augusto. RECONSTRUCCIÓN PARCIAL DEL PABELLÓN AURICULAR CON COLGAJO RETROAURICULAR. Cuad. - Hosp. Clín. [online]. 2006, vol.51, n.2, pp. 70-72. ISSN 1652-6776.

The earlobe, due to its exposed situation, is susceptible to a variety of traumatic and/or pathologic lesions, therefore its reconstruction is a real challenge for surgery in order to maintain symmetry with the earlobe on the opposite side as its complex structure. Therefore we present the case of a patient with loss of the posterior helical border after a human bite. The damage was cured by retroauricular skin graft, a versatile, simple technique which requires always the fulfilment of all surgical technical requirements of treatment by movilization of skin grafts.

Palavras-chave : Reconstruction of the earlobe; retroauricular skin graft.