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The article is devoted to scientific biography of the prominent neuroanatomist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor L. A. Shangina, representative of the scientific school of Tonkov-Bushmakin. Her input into becoming of the chairs of normal anatomy of medical institutes in Irkutsk, Moscow, Kursk, Dushanbe (Tajikistan) and Smolensk and in organization of scientific community of neuromorphologists in the USSR in the middle and second half of the twentieth century is demonstrated. The special attention is paid to the results of scientific studies of L. A. Shangina and her post-graduate students of topography of nerves innervating human heart, of topography of accessory nerve (XI pair of cranial nerves), of structure of receptors of autonomic nervous system in walls of alimentary tract and urinary system.

The study was concerned with analysis of the data on 342 patients with lung cancer aged more than 70 years, 170 of whom had undergone surgery (peripheral cancer--117, central--53). Considering the poor functional status of the patients and their low compensatory potential, mostly organ-saving procedures (80.4%) (lobe-, bilobectomy, segmentectomy or wedge pneumonectomy) were used. Postoperative, largely bronchopulmonary and cardiovascular, complications developed in 37.6%. Postoperative lethality rate was 14.7%: after partial resection of the lung--13.5%, pneumonectomy--29.6%.