Abstract:Objective To study the clinical significance of mucosal microvascular morphological changes in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) under narrow band imaging (NBI). Methods From 2015. 01 to 2015. 06, 89 cases were examined with electronic nasopharyngolaryngoscope equipped with white light mode and NBI mode. The clinical significance of the morphological characteristics of mucosal superficial micro-vessels were evaluated combining with their tumor stage. Results 54 cases of these patients were confirmed NPC pathologically. Under NBI, the changes of mucosal microvascular morphological in NPC should be divided into three types. Among the 54 NPC patients, the cases of Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ were respectively 6, 10, 7 in T1~2 group and 1, 12, 18 in T3~4 group. In addition, Ⅰ were seen more frequently in T1~2 group, while Ⅲ were seen more frequently in T3~4 group, the difference had statistically significance (P < 0.05). However, the difference of Ⅱ had not statistically significance between T1~2 group and T3~4 group (P > 0.05). There was no significance difference in N stage, M stage and NPC clinical stage among these three type of vessels (P > 0.05). Conclusion Under NBI, the changes of mucosal microvascular morphology maybe can indicate the tumor invasive depth.