value of the laparoscope in the diagnosis of polycystic ovary

ABSTRACT

In this paper we studied 171 patients with polycystic ovarian disease diagnosed by laparoscopy. The disturbances of the menstrual cycles varied between amenorrhoes, secondary or primary, oligohypomenorrhoea, menorrhagia or regular cycles. In performing laparoscopy 160 patients had general anesthesia and 11 patients had local anesthesia. Laparoscoy revealed that the polycystic changes of the ovaries were not always bilateral, but were sometimes unilateral. There were 141 patients with bilateral changes and 30 patients with unilateral changes in the left ovary. All the ovaries, however, showed a smooth, pearly, white thick surface with the loss of the surface indentations of the normal ovary