Dr. Steven John Skoog
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
3181 Sw Sam Jackson Park Rd Cdw6 Portland OR, 97239Rating
5/5
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Dr. Steven Skoog practices Pediatric Urology in Portland, OR. Pediatric urologists treat young patients who suffer from an illness or disease of the genitals or urinary tract, including the kidneys, ureters, bladder. As a pediatric urologist, Dr. Skoog is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Skoog performs include surgical reconstruction of the urinary tract, hypospadias, and disorders of sex development; surgery for groin conditions in childhood; evaluation and surgical management of kidney stone disease; and surgical management of tumors and malignancies of the kidney, bladder, and testis.
Education and Training
Or Hlth Sci Univ Sch of Med, Portland Or 1976
Georgetown University in Washington DC 1976
Board Certification
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Renal medullary hyperechogenicity of the neonate.
- Laser incision of ureterocele in the pediatric patient.
- Laparoscopy for nonpalpable testes in childhood: is inguinal exploration also necessary when vas and vessels exit the inguinal ring?
- Diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of adolescent varicocele.
- Congenital scrotal agenesis: description of a rare anomaly and management strategies.
- Subureteral injection of Deflux for correction of reflux: analysis of factors predicting success.
- Current management of adolescent varicocele.
- Pressure, fluid and anatomical characteristics of abdominoscrotal hydroceles in infants.
- Vesicoureteral reflux nomograms--can we use these in the clinic?
- Editorial comment.
- Commentary to 'Analysis of duplicate presentations accepted at two top international pediatric urology meetings'.
- Prophylaxis versus no prophylaxis for reflux.
- Long-term followup after endoscopic treatment of vesicoureteral reflux with dextranomer/hyaluronic acid copolymer in patients with neurogenic bladder.
- Editorial comment.
- Endoscopic treatment for vesicoureteral reflux: how important is technique?
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Hernia
- Urinary Tract Infection (uti)
- Inguinal Hernia
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