Figure 2.

Longer and denser basal microvilli in pancreatic cancer indicate an elevated glucose uptake. (A) Typical patterns of basal microvilli on the microvasculature segments of nine pancreatic cancers with differential PET‐CT SUVmax values. A CD34 antibody was used to stain microvessels. All images were taken from a Z‐stack and are shown as maximum intensity projection. Scale bar: 20 μm. (B) The relationships of the mean/median values of basal microvilli length, density, and index with tumor PET‐CT SUVmax values in pancreatic cancer patients. Spearman's correlations were used to estimate the correlation efficiency and statistical significance.