Surgical instruments

Stewart Crypt Hook

Web referenceTGI-C-F7494FC2Quote this to us. It identifies this page, not a factory part number.

Sizes TGI publishes9" Printed on TGI's own catalogue photograph of this article.

A proctology pattern: the fine hook is passed into an anal crypt or fistula tract during anorectal surgery.

A single-ended, one-piece hand hook. A straight shank ends in a small, tightly turned hook head, and the other end is a flat handle. It has no joint, no lock and no moving part. In a catalog it sits in the small-hook group beside skin hooks, nerve hooks and tenaculum hooks, and is told apart from them by the short tightly curved head rather than a sharp prong or a wide blunt bend. The same pattern name is normally listed twice, once with a short hook and once with a long hook.

Minimum order300 instrumentsThe minimum for surgical instruments. Mixed orders are quoted against your list.

Lead timeInstruments ~2-3 weeks · full sets ~4-6 weeks after advance.

Quality control

The inspection step is set by the line you order.

Economy line
sample: visual + dimensional
Clinical line
sample + boil test
Premium line
tighter sample + hardness test
Executive line
100% inspection + laser mark

Finish A color is a second choice, made on top of the line. Colored finishes on request, on any instrument, in addition to the steel line. Evidenced: black · gold · rose gold · blue · rainbow (anodised titanium).

Stewart Crypt Hook, surgical instruments, TGI's own catalog photograph
TGI's own catalogue photograph of this article.

How it is built

  • One piece; no joint, no lock, no moving part
  • Straight shank ending in a small, tightly turned hook head
  • Cataloged in a short-hook and a long-hook version under one pattern name
  • Flat handle on the common pattern
  • Single ended
  • stainless steel

PatternsStewart · Pratt · Barr

The standard sizes this kind of instrument is made in

216 mm (8 1/2 in), Stewart, long style · 229 mm (9 in) overall with a 22 mm (7/8 in) hook, Stewart, long hook

These are the sizes the pattern is manufactured in across the trade. They are not a stock list. Tell us the size you need and we will quote against it.

This describes the crypt hook as an article. 1 other article in this catalog shares it: the sentence above is what separates this one. This describes the article. The steel, the finish and the inspection step are set by the line you order.

Material and quality

LineSteelOriginFinishInspection
Economy lineAISI 410Pakistani or Taiwanesesatin, passivatedsample: visual + dimensional
Clinical lineAISI 420Pakistani or Germansatin, passivatedsample + boil test
Premium lineAISI 420-440CGerman or Japanesefine polish, passivatedtighter sample + hardness test
Executive lineAISI 440CGerman or Japanesemirror polish, passivated100% inspection + laser mark

This is the steel each line is made from as standard. A different origin can be supplied on request (a lower grade in Japanese steel, for example), agreed on your order.

Premium is the line where the choice is yours: 420 or 440C, agreed on your order. Economy is always 410 and Executive is always 440C. Those three are the instrument steels. Hollowware and sterilization containers are made in AISI 202 on a Clinical order and AISI 304 on a Premium or Executive one, and they are not offered in the Economy line at all, which is the section above.

The five grades, side by side, and what each one is for

True of every order

Instruments are marked to the buyer's requirement (TGI, unmarked, or the buyer's own brand), agreed on the order.

Customized packaging is part of what TGI supplies. Your own printed boxes, your labels, your brand on the pack, or plain export packing, whichever your market needs. The packing for your order is agreed with you and confirmed on the order.

Manufactured under the quality management system covered by TGI's ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 certificates. Certificate numbers and the issuer's registry are on the certification page. Open the certificates

Every batch of steel is ordered to a specified grade and arrives with the mill's own certificate, which identifies the mill and states the grade. TGI checks the material at the factory against its own requirement before it goes into production. That check is TGI's own inspection, not an independent laboratory test.

TGI manufactures in its own factory in Sialkot and also supplies articles made by contracted partner workshops, to TGI's specification. Which applies to a given article is confirmed on your order.

One-year guarantee on Premium and Executive tier instruments, hollowware and sterilization containers: any technical manufacturing defect, including material faults and rust, is replaced free of charge. Damage from handling or accidents is not covered. The year runs from the day the goods leave Sialkot.

If something is wrong with a delivery (a manufacturing defect, or a short or wrong article), tell us on WhatsApp within 7 days of delivery, with a video and photographs of what arrived. Replacement instruments are sent free of charge and dispatched within 24 hours of us seeing them; you pay the shipping, and they reach you as a normal order does.

Damage that happened after the goods left Sialkot is a claim against your carrier. The video of your parcel at the shipping office is sent to you before shipment and is the evidence that claim needs.