title: Optic disk drusen, peripapillary choroidal neovascularization, and POEMS syndrome.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the case of a 64-year-old woman with peripheral neuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes (POEMS) syndrome, Castleman disease, optic nerve drusen, and peripapillary choroidal neovascularization.
  
  
  METHODS
  Interventional case report. Clinical practice.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Laser photocoagulation resolved the peripapillary choroidal neovascularization.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This is the first documented case of optic disk drusen and peripapillary choroidal neovascularization associated with POEMS.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Jorge M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Diduszyn
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Quillen
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Cantore
authors.forename: Thomas W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Gardner
mesh_terms: D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D020256:Choroidal Neovascularization / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017075:Laser Coagulation; D008875:Middle Aged; D015594:Optic Disk Drusen / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D016878:POEMS Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D014792:Visual Acuity