Review the List Below and Select the Option That Most

question 13

Multiple Choice

Review the list below and select the option that most accurately describes the action taken after a fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of a suspicious breast mass.

• A) The aspirate fluid is cytologically examined.
• B) The aspirate fluid is histologically examined by frozen section.
• C) The aspirate fluid is microscopically examined immediately by the procedural physician.
• D) The patient undergoes an immediate excisional biopsy if the aspirate fluid is positive for malignancy.

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Definitions:

Confidence Intervals

A stretch of values, from sample data analysis, that is envisaged to hold the value of an undefined population characteristic.

Outliers

Observations in a data set that are significantly distant from the other observations, potentially indicating variability in measurement or experimental errors.

Confidence Intervals

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is believed to contain the true population parameter with a certain level of confidence.

Unknown Parameters

Quantities in a statistical model that are not known a priori but are estimated from data.