[Surgery of temporal lobe epilepsy].

The need for and the most important categories of epilepsy surgery, as well as the evaluation of this kind of treatment by health care authorities in Switzerland is shortly discussed. Means for quality control and future developments of epilepsy surgery are mentioned. Indications and methods for the surgical treatment of the temporal lobe epilepsies are reviewed. Long-term results of the Zurich selective amygdalo-hippocampectomy series are briefly reported taking also into account the recently published proposal for a new classification of outcome with respect to epileptic seizures following epilepsy surgery.