A Case of Curative Surgery after Infection Control Surgery for Peritonitis Due to Perforation of Rectal Cancer

: A 70s man was admitted to another hospital with a complaint of abdominal pain, and was diagnosed with a gastrointestinal perforation based on the presence of free air in the abdominal cavity on computed tomography. The patient was transferred to our hospital in shock and underwent emergency surgery. Operative findings showed a perforation of the rectosigmoid colon and rectal cancer at the anal side of the perforation site. As his general condition was unstable due to septic shock, only the segments of the colon including the perforation site and rectal cancer were resected for source control. The abdominal wall was kept open, and intraperitoneal contamination was managed with an open management method using negative pressure wound therapy. Systemictreatments for septicshoc k were performed in the intensive care unit with a vasopressor and polymyxin-B hemoperfusion. The general condition became stable with intensive care by postoperative day 3. We performed additional lymph node dissection and one-step rectal sigmoidoscopic anastomosis on postoperative day 4. The pathological results confirmed pT4aN1M0, pStage Ⅲa disease. Although the course was complicated by postoperative pneumonia, the patient was discharged on postoperative day 28. We experienced a case in which curative resection with radical lymph node dissection and one-step anastomosis were performed after infection and source control with open abdomen management.