Abstract:Objective?To investigate the guiding role of narrow-band imaging endoscopy in laryngeal malignant lesion biopsy.?Methods?100 consecutive patients with suspected precancerous or cancerous lesions of the larynx were enrolled in this study. High performance endoscopic system equipped with the white light mode and NBI mode was introduced in the examination of hrynx. Full pharyngeal and laryngeal examination was performed first under white light endoscope and then under NBI. Each lesion was observed by NBI endoscopy and classified according to the detailed morphologic findings of epithelial microvessels. Histological results were then compared to the corresponding white light and NBI images.?Results?In 100 patients, 56 patients (56.0 %) were malignant tumors and 44 patients (44.0 %) were benign lesions. The diagnostic accuracy by NBI for the laryngeal lesions was 75.0 %, which was significantly higher than that of white light (60.0 %, P < 0.05). The sensitivity and specificity by NBI were 89.3 %, 63.6 %, which were significantly higher than that of white light (75.0 %, 40.9 %, P < 0.05).?Conclusion?Narrow-band imaging endoscopy can obviously improve in the detection of laryngeal malignant lesion by biopsy.