Professional qualities and skills of surgeons for complex retroperitoneal tumor        LI Hong-wei, DENG Xia-xing. Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
Corresponding author: LI Hong-wei, E-mail: hwli@263.net
Abstract    Because of the low incidence and complicated pathological types of complex retroperitoneal tumor, there is no unified standard for its treatment. The therapeutic efficacy depends more on surgeons' professional quality and technical level. Surgeons should master the essential qualities and skills such as preoperative diagnosis, surgical indication and principle, combined organ resection, vascular and minimally invasive surgical techniques, multidisciplinary team