[Histological studies and pathogenesis of polycystic ovaries]

58 ovarian wedge resections of 34 patients with the clinical diagnosis "Stein-Leventhal-syndrome" were histologically examined in comparison to 23 ovaries or parts of ovaries of 16 patients with regular ovarian cyclus. There was found no important difference in these two groups apart from a hyperplasia of the tunica albuginea and the absence of corpora lutea. According to our investigations, and regarding well known facts, it must be concluded that the polycystis ovaries are nothing else than the result of a disturbance of cyclic gonadotropin secretion, and thus an expression of anovulation with sufficient ovaries.