A 42-Year-Old Man Presents with a 1 * 1 Cm

question 70

Multiple Choice

A 42-year-old man presents with a 1 * 1 cm white patch on the lateral surface of his tongue. Based solely on this information, clinical differential diagnosis should include:

• A) Frictional hyperkeratosis
• B) Hairy leukoplakia
• C) Idiopathic leukoplakia
• D) All the above
• E) None of the above

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information available to estimate another piece of information or parameters in a dataset.

Student T-distributed

A probability distribution used in statistical analyses when the sample size is small and the population standard deviation is unknown.

Test Statistic

A calculated value from sample data used to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis in the context of a hypothesis test.

Normal Distribution

It is a probability distribution that features a symmetric alignment around the mean, emphasizing that data around the mean occur more than data at a distance.