Abstract:To evaluate the clinical value of magnifying endoscopy-narrow band imaging (ME-NBI) for targeting biopsy of lesions in the early esophageal cancer. Methods 91 patients with suspicious early esophageal lesions under common white light imaging (C-WLI) were prospcetively entrolled and biopsied from October 2015 to December 2017. Further endoscopy was conducted using ME-NBI and target biopsy. 87 patients receved endoscopic resection (ER). Outcomes of WLI biopsy and ME-NBI target biopsy,with histology of ER specimen as golden standard. Results The overall diagnostic accuracy of C-WLI biopsy and target biopsy were increased from 18.39% (16/87) to 88.50% (77/87), with statistically significant difference (P<0.05); In diagnosing early esophageal cancer and high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia, the sensitivity of ME-NBI targeted biopsy and C-WLI biopsy were 92.18% and 33.33%, The accuracy were 91.67% and 60.86%, respectively. All the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05); ME-NBI can evaluate the infiltration depth of lesions by observing the changes of IPCL, playing a guiding role in preoperative evaluation. Conclusion In the diagnosis of early esophageal cancer, ME -NBI targeted biopsy is superior to the C-WLI biopsy, ME-NBI can be used in checking infiltration depth inspection of early esophageal cancer.