Dr. Ronald Melvin Katon MD
Gastroenterologist | Gastroenterology
3181 Sw Sam Jackson Park Rd Portland OR, 97239Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Ronald Katon is a gastroenterologist practicing in Portland, OR. Dr. Katon specializes in the digestive system and its diseases that affect the gastrointestinal tract, which include organs from the mouth to the anus as well as liver disorders. Gastroenterology includes conditions such as hepatitis, peptic ulcer disease, colitis, nutritional problems and irritable bowel syndrome. Dr. Katon performs colonoscopy and endoscopy procedures and provides accurate and thorough care for patients suffering from digestive issues.
Education and Training
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science 1966
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Gastroenterology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A randomized trial of peroral versus transnasal unsedated endoscopy using an
- A role for transnasal esophagogastroduodenoscopy in patients intolerant to the
- Endoscopic balloon dilation of multiple NSAID-induced colonic strictures: case report and review of literature on NSAID-related colopathy.
- Total peroral intraoperative enteroscopy for obscure GI bleeding using a dedicated push enteroscope: diagnostic yield and patient outcome.
- Small bowel biopsy by coaxial catheter. A simple, rapid technique.
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography in patients with gastrectomy and gastrojejunostomy (Billroth II), A case for the forward look.
- Algorithm for an aggressive diagnostic approach to obstructive jaundice.
- Solitary rectal ulcer syndrome presenting with rectal prolapse, severe mucorrhea and eroded polypoid hyperplasia: case report and review of the literature.
- NSAID-induced small bowel diaphragms and strictures diagnosed with intraoperative enteroscopy.
- A randomized controlled trial in a training institution comparing a pediatric variable stiffness colonoscope, a pediatric colonoscope, and an adult colonoscope.
- Use of a variable-stiffness colonoscope allows completion of colonoscopy after failure with the standard adult colonoscope.
- Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma in a 3-year-old child diagnosed at ERCP: case report and review.
- Evaluation of sclerosing cholangitis by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
- Complications of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). A study of 10,000 cases.
- "Blind" evaluation of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in the diagnosis of pancreatic carcinoma: the "double duct" and other signs.
Treatments
- Anemia
- Hiatal Hernia
- Acid Reflux
- Diarrhea
- Colon Polyps
- Diverticulosis
- Pain
- Hernia
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