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Emil Pins
Austrian internist, born April 15, 1845, Lemberg, Galizien; died June 12, 1913, Vienna.
Associated eponyms:
Ewart's sign
Typically localized pulmonary auscultation- and percussion phenomenon in large pericardial effusion,
Pins' sign
In pericarditis, the disappearance of symptoms of pleurisy and loss of pain when patient leans forward to the knee-chest position.
Biography:
Emil Pins attended the University of Vienna, receiving his doctorate in 1873. Following his hospital service in the Allgemeines Krankenhaus, where he was also assistant to the otologist Adam Politzer (1835-1920), he settled as a practitioner in Vienna.
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