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Optic disk drusen, peripapillary choroidal neovascularization, and POEMS syndrome
Jorge M Diduszyn1, David A Quillen, William A Cantore
1Department of Ophthalmology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
American Journal of Ophthalmology
|January 29, 2002
Abstract
Purpose:
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.
Conclusion:
This is the first documented case of optic disk drusen and peripapillary choroidal neovascularization associated with POEMS.