Diffuse female hair loss: are androgens necessary?

Diffuse hair loss in women is generally regarded as the female equivalent o f male balding and is often referred to as female androgenetic alopecia. in this article we report the case of a young woman with hypopituitarism who presented with the clinical and histological features of female androgeneti c alopecia in the absence of detectable levels of circulating androgens or other signs of postpubertal androgenization, showing that this pattern of h air loss is not necessarily androgen dependent.