The Stein-Leventhal syndrome.

THE subject of the Stein–Leventhal syndrome in relation to sterility first aroused my curiosity about thirty years ago. I observed (with Leventhal1) a small group of women complaining of long periods of amenorrhea, sterility and hirsutism. In some of these women, one or both ovaries were palpably enlarged. Since we had been utilizing Peterson's technic of x-ray visualization of the pelvic viscera in controversial gynecologic disorders since 1923,2 we applied pneumoroentgenography (a form of gynecography3) to this group. We consistently found a striking picture of bilateral, symmetrically enlarged ovaries. We were curious to ascertain whether biopsy of the . . .