Polycystic Ovary Disease (Stein-Leventhal Syndrome)

Polycystic ovary disease is a poorly understood disorder characterized by anovulation, menstrual irregularities (amenorrhea), infertility, and multiple follicular cysts in the ovaries covered by a dense fibrous capsule. Corpora lutea and corpora albicantia are absent from the ovaries. Various clinical syndromes have been described in association with polycystic ovary disease.