Dr. Salinas did not look up at him. She adjusted the frequency knob on the console with her left hand, increasing the acoustic gain.

“Mr. Diego,” Dr. Salinas said, her eyes locked on the moving pixel field. “If your wife were seven weeks pregnant, the gestational sac would measure approximately twenty-two millimeters, and we would be visualizing an early embryonic pole with rudimentary limb buds.”

Dr. Salinas tapped the trackball, drawing three digital calipers across the screen.

BEEP.

The digital overlay on the right-hand margin recalculated the biometric indices in bright yellow text:

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METROPOLITAN OBSTETRIC FORENSICS // CLINICAL REPORT

PATIENT: LAURA MENDOZA-VAZQUEZ (AGE: 34)

CLINICAL INDICATION: FIRST TRIMESTER GESTATIONAL DATING
CROWN-RUMP LENGTH (CRL): NOT APPLICABLE
BIPARIETAL DIAMETER (BPD): 38.4 mm (PERCENTILE: 51%)
FEMUR LENGTH (FL): 24.1 mm (PERCENTILE: 49%)
ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE (AC): 118.2 mm
ESTIMATED GESTATIONAL AGE: 17 WEEKS, 2 DAYS (+/- 4 DAYS)
ESTIMATED DATE OF CONCEPTION: NOVEMBER 4, 2025
STATUS: SINGLETON ACTIVE FETUS // MORPHOLOGY NORMAL
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