Background: Flutamide has been rarely used for the treatment of female pattern hair loss (FPHL). Flutamide treatment for FPHL has not been evaluated in long-term studies with sufficiently large ...

Historically, flutamide's 'frontdoor' entry to the scene of antiandrogen therapy in women was closed in the 1990s, because of its rare but potentially severe hepatotoxicity when given in doses ...

It is peculiar that the employment of a potent antiandrogen, such as flutamide, in FPHL has been so underutilized. Recently, Scheinfeld [28] observed that flutamide is not in common use by ...