A 55-year-old male patient was referred to our hospital for rescue surgery because of right pleural empyema and right lower lobe lung abscess caused by diaphragmatic defects following hepatic resection. This patient underwent laparotomy with a right liver lobectomy and cholecystectomy for the treatment of a 14.5 cm hepatoma 7 months ago in another hospital. After referral, he was successfully treated by right thoracoscopic decortication, right lung basal segmentectomies, repair of two diaphragmatic defects, and control of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. The surgical specimens presented with a right lower lung abscess and right pleural empyema, without the presence of hepatocellular cancer cells. He was uneventfully discharged on postoperative day 14.