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Extensive resection including posterior vaginal wall may be required for the advanced low rectal cancer or recurrent rectal cancer in order to achieve the tumor free circumferential margins. We describe closure of a vaginal defect with rectus abdominis musculocutaneous flap after extended abdominoperineal resection, hysterectomy and partial colpectomy in a patient with recurrent rectal cancer with the special reference to the surgical technique.