Flutamide-induced photosensitivity: Is it a forme fruste of lupus? [11]

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 603-604

  Kaur, C ^a   Thami, G P ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; BETAMETHASONE; FLUTAMIDE;

AGED; ANOREXIA; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ERYTHEMA; FACE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; FOOT; GYNECOMASTIA; HAND; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER DISEASE; LUPUS VULGARIS; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; NECK; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PSEUDOPORPHYRIA; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN EXAMINATION; SUN EXPOSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; X RAY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; FLUTAMIDE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDERS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037362496     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.2003.05209_11.x     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

1. Fujimoto M, Kikuchi K, Imakado S, Furue M. Photosensitive dermatitis induced by flutamide. Br J Dermatol 1996; 35: 496-7.
2. Reid MB, Glode LM. Flutamide induced lupus. J Urol 1998; 159: 2098.
3. Borroni G, Brazzelli V, Baldini F et al. Flutamide induced pseudoporphyria. Br J Dermatol 1998; 138: 713-14.
4. Vargas F, Rivas C, Mendes H et al. Photochemistry and phototoxicity studies of flutamide, a phototoxic anti-cancer drug. J Photochem Photobiol 2000: 58: 108-14.
5. Walker SE, Besch-Williford CL, Keisler DH. Accelerated deaths from systemic lupus erythematosus in NZB X NZW F1 mice treated with the testosterone-blocking drug flutamide. J Laboratory Clin Med 1994; 124: 401-7.