Editing Polycystic ovary syndrome (section)

== History ==
Historical descriptions of PCOS symptoms date back to ancient Greece, where Hippocrates described women with "thick, oily skin and absence of menstruation."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hanson |first=Ann Ellis |date=1975 |title=Hippocrates: "Diseases of Women 1" |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/493243 |journal=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society |language=en |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=567–584 |doi=10.1086/493243 |pmid=21213645 |issn=0097-9740}}</ref>

In modern times, the condition was first described in 1935 by American gynecologists Irving F. Stein Sr. and Michael L. Leventhal, from whom its original name of ''Stein–Leventhal syndrome'' is taken.<ref name=emedicine_imaging>{{EMedicine|article|404754|Imaging in Polycystic Ovary Disease}}</ref><ref name=emedicine_main /> Stein and Leventhal first described PCOS as an endocrine disorder in the United States, and since then, it has become recognized as one of the most common causes of oligo-ovulatory infertility among women.<ref name="BarryAzizia2014" />

The earliest published description of a person with what was later recognized as PCOS was in 1721 in Italy.<ref name="Kovacs2007" /> Cyst-related changes to the ovaries were described in 1844.<ref name="Kovacs2007" />