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Shon Cook, M.D.
Certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons
Specializing in Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
Important Notice: Our office is now in its new location at 10001 S. Western Ave, Suite 101 in Oklahoma City. The Contact and Map page has been updated. We are only in the office on Friday's, but you can drop off images and records any day of the week and we will get them on Friday.
One of 2 neurosurgeons in Oklahoma named in Castle Connolly list of Top Doctors every year from 2010 to 2024.
Dr. Cook began offering state of the art, cutting edge, neuroendoscopy, keyhole brain surgery, and minimally invasive spine surgery right here in Oklahoma in 2004.
While surgery is rarely the first choice of treatment, it sometimes becomes the only option when all other non-invasive treatments have failed. By using minimally invasive techniques in all aspects of neurosurgery, hospital stay and recovery time are shortened, while patient discomfort is minimized. A few examples:
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Brain tumors and trigeminal neuralgia treated through keyhole approaches or endoscopically, with hidden incisions, without shaving the head. Most go home the next day.
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Non-coilable brain aneurysms clipped using non-invasive 3D CTA rather than transfemoral angiography. Again, most go home the next day.
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Pituitary tumor removal patients have no incisions, have no nasal packing to remove, and can go home the next day.
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Carpal tunnel syndrome surgery done endoscopically through a 3/8 inch incision, with no sutures to remove, no incision on the hand, no bandage or splint to wear, and no activity restrictions. Most patients go back to work the next day.
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Single and multilevel lumbar and cervical microdecompression done through a small tube using a tiny incision as an outpatient.
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Minimally invasive lumbar spine interbody fusion and instrumentation patients go home the next day with 1 inch or less incisions, and “open” fusion patients go home in 24 to 48 hours.
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Failing or infected shunts removed permanently from obstructive hydrocephalus patients by relieving the obstruction endoscopically.
Dr. Cook has been in practice in Oklahoma since finishing training at UCLA in 2004, with offices in Norman and South OKC. He operates at Community Hospital, Saint Anthony Hospital, and Surgical Hospital of Oklahoma. He is accepting new patients with any of a variety of neurosurgical problems such as brain and spine tumors, pituitary tumors, trigeminal neuralgia, brain aneurysms, Chiari malformations, hydrocephalus, back pain, neck pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other nerve entrapment syndromes.
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