A 44-year-old man was admitted in intensive care unit after a suicide attempt by ingestion of 300 mL of caustic (WC net~R ouragan). During hospitalization, the patient was presenting acute right chest pain with a 39.6degC fever, tachycardia and hypoxaemia after hyperemesis. A thoracic computed tomographic scan (CT) with injection showed a right inhalation pneum-opathy and a wide right pleural effusion (Fig. 1A) requiring a pleural drainage. The chest drain (Mallinck-rodt? drain trocard) was placed basally in the eighth intercostal space, but unexpectedly produced 340 mL of veinous blood. The patient was hemodynamically stable. An emergency thoracic-abdominal CT scan with injection showed an unsuitable setting of *the chest drain which was passing through the liver (Fig. IB and C) and no active bleeding or major vessels damage was seen.
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