Sinskey hook
A fine instrument with a curved, blunt tip mounted on a thin handle, designed to manipulate intraocular structures with millimetric precision.
How it is used
Used in cataract surgery to rotate and position the intraocular lens within the capsular bag, and to manipulate the lens nucleus during phacoemulsification.
Clinical tip
Its blunt tip allows intraocular tissue manipulation without perforating the posterior capsule, unlike a sharp-tipped instrument.
Sources
This entry is part of the Instriq catalog, researched and written per specialty from real web research -- never generated or invented without verification -- and reviewed skeptically and independently before publication. How this catalog is written.
History
Added to the catalog on 2026-10-05.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.