[Premature ovarian insufficiency. Analysis of 30 cases].

Premature menopause is a relatively rare disease but it has delicate consequences dominated by infertility problems. Most often, etiologic investigation is disappointing. Helped in some cases by the association to some auto-immune diseases or a previous treatment with chemotherapy or an irradiation may be useful to understand the origin of the premature ovarian failure. We analyse in this paper 30 cases of premature menopause to try to precise its etiologic factors, its diagnosis tools, the fertility prognostic and the therapeutic possibilities