Abstract Hematoxylin and eosin-stained sections of ovaries from 14 premenopausal and 6 postmenopausal women were studied. Planimetric methods after image tracing on graph paper were employed to measure the corpora albicantia of these ovaries selected from our surgical files. No significant differences were found concerning the quantitative aspect of the corpora albicantia of pre- and postmenopausal women. The problem of the fate of the corpora albicantia formed during the reproductive life of a woman has been introduced.