Hi Rita. I found your source text and read it :-)

Certains fabricants commercialisaient uniquement des bandelettes pour le traitement de l’incontinence urinaire d’effort simple, alors que d’autres commercialisaient des dispositifs de différentes formes (bandelettes, plaques, autres formes) et utilisés dans des indications différentes.

So "bandelette" refers to the tension-free vaginal tape and "plaque" refers to another type of implant. I think it could be referring to the traditional sling known as a pubovaginal sling. http://www.ucurology.org/homeThumbs/femaleUrologyK.htm

But I'm still checking on it :-)



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Note added at 3 hrs (2006-02-03 22:29:39 GMT)
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I think "plaque" could be referring to the "patch sling".

eg http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&d...

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Note added at 12 hrs (2006-02-04 07:12:23 GMT)
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Of course, "part" is proportion.
And "plaque" in medical language can be "patch" or "plate" but I don't think "plate" can be used in this context. In any case, I have never heard of nor can I find any reference to plates being used for stress incontinence ;-)



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Note added at 12 hrs (2006-02-04 07:26:34 GMT)
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Patch sling or patch graft as opposed to tape (bandelettes) - I'm pretty sure it's that now.
http://www.continet.org/publications/2000/Read/STRESS INCONT...