[A Case of Long-Term Survival after Resection of Metachronous Metastases to the Liver and Lungs from Primary Rectal Cancer].

A 81-year-old man had undergone high anterior resection for rectalcancer in 20XX. Abdominalcomputed tomography (CT)showed an isolated shadow of 2 cm in size in the liver, 9 years after surgery for colorectal cancer. We performed liver S4 segmental resection and cholecystectomy. Histopathological examination confirmed liver metastases of rectal cancer. On examination of the liver metastasis 5 years after surgery, chest CT showed a shadow of 10mm in size in S6 of the left lung. We performed partialresection via video-assisted thoracic surgery(VATS)in 20XX+14. Histopathological examination revealed lung metastases of rectal cancer. We believe that metachronous metastases from rectal cancer should be removed surgically if radicalcure is possible.