[The role of endoscopic methods in the diagnosis of endocrine infertility in women with persistent anovulation].

The incidence of stubborn anovulation in patients ineffectively treated with hormones has made up. 22.7%. Laparoscopy and biopsy of the ovaries followed by histologic and morphometric examinations of ovarian tissue have detected three characteristic types of the ovaries in the cases with stubborn anovulation in the presence of LH and FSH dissociation and elevated gonadotropin content. Laparoscopic biopsy of the ovaries in not only a diagnostic, but a therapeutic method as well.