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Figure 17. Sparsely Granulated Somatotroph Adenomas are composed of chromophobic cells with striking nuclear pleomorphism and prominent nucleoli that can mimic metastatic carcinoma (a). Immunohistochemical stains for low molecular weight cytokeratins reveal the characteristic feature of this tumor type, the fibrous body, which manifests as juxtanuclear globular reactivity (b).