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This edition of “In the Loupe” finds Humphrey Okechi, MBChB, performing a closure of a myelomeningocele with distal cordectomy in Kijabe, Kenya. Drs. Okechi and Leland Albright have described a technique to simplify myelomeningocele closure by performing cordectomy just distal to the last nerve root exiting the non-dysraphic spine (JNS:Peds 13(2) 192-5, Feb. 2014).