Objectives: To survey Clinical, paraclinical characteristic of nontoxic goitre in elderly patients. Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study on 183 elderly patients among 627 cases with nontoxic goitre, who were undergone subtotal thyroidectomy in Hospital 103, from 10/2004 to 10/2009.Results and conclusions: Clinical characteristic: Female / male: 5.5, average age: 66.8 (range 60 - 83), disease'time: 145.4 months (range 1 - 600), multinodular goitre 66.1%, nodular goitre 32.8%, diffuse 1.1%.