Introduction:

Colloid Goiter appears frecuently in outpatient health services in Angola. For this reason, it is important to know all its presentation features, for further examination, diagnosis and monitoring.

Objective:

to characterize Colloid Goiter behavior after surgery, at General Surgery Service of Huambo Regional Hospital of Angola.

Methods:

a transversal, prospective and descriptive study of Colloid Goiter patients, at General Surgery Service of Huambo Regional Hospital, Angola. Universe involved 434 patients and the sample was represented by 253 patients from this group.

Results:

females (89.8%), countryside patients (65.2%) as well as ages from 40 to 50 (58.5%) predominated. Hypertension prevailed over associated diseases (25.7%). From the clinical point of view, simetric (80.6%) and Colloid Goiter III (69.1%) were the most representatives. In all patients, Simetric and hipoecoic Colloid Goiter diagnosis were confirmed through echography. Associated nodules with calcifications were the most frequent. In this study, fine needle aspiration citology was the citological method of election from which coloid moderated presence with poligonals and big cells in little groups, extirpated gland histological diagnosis of big thyroid folicle with distention and high cubic epitele calcifications, prevailed.

Conclusions:

the Subtotal Thyroidectomy was the most frequent resection. The most obvious complication in thyroid surgery was transient dysphonia, as keloids sequelae from the surgical wound.

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