Diseases

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

A complex disorder characterized by infertility, HIRSUTISM; OBESITY; and various menstrual disturbances such as OLIGOMENORRHEA; AMENORRHEA; ANOVULATION. Polycystic ovary syndrome is usually associated with bilateral enlarged ovaries studded with atretic follicles, not with cysts. The term, polycystic ovary, is misleading.

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A complex disorder characterized by infertility, HIRSUTISM; OBESITY; and various menstrual disturbances such as OLIGOMENORRHEA; AMENORRHEA; ANOVULATION. Polycystic ovary syndrome is usually associated with bilateral enlarged ovaries studded with atretic follicles, not with cysts. The term, polycystic ovary, is misleading.

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  • Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
  • Polycystic Ovary Syndrome 1
  • Sclerocystic Ovarian Degeneration
  • Sclerocystic Ovary Syndrome
  • Stein-Leventhal Syndrome
  • Ovarian Degeneration, Sclerocystic
  • Ovarian Syndrome, Polycystic
  • Ovary Syndrome, Polycystic
  • Stein Leventhal Syndrome
  • Syndrome, Polycystic Ovary
  • Syndrome, Stein-Leventhal
  • Sclerocystic Ovaries
  • Ovary, Sclerocystic
  • Sclerocystic Ovary

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, blood supply, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, chemistry, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, secondary, surgery, therapy, ultrastructure, urine, veterinary, virology.

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non-neoplastic

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History Note

85; was STEIN-LEVENTHAL SYNDROME 1963-84

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011085. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011085
  2. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyendocrine_metabolic_ovarian_syndrome
  3. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q500816