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A woman SWALLOWED $7,000 US dollars in a desperate attempt to hide the cash during a fight with her husband, it was reported.

The 30-year-old woman swallowed rolls of $100 bills, according to surgeons who removed the money from her body .

The Colombian woman told the local RCN television channel she had saved up the money for a holiday with her husband after having sold several electrical household items.

Doctors said they were able to surgically extract 57 $100 bills from the woman's stomach and intestines.

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Director of Surgery at the University Hospital of Santander, Juan Paulo Serrano, said the majority of the bills were extracted through a gastronomy through the stomach.

Additional rolls would be passed through the colon, he added.

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The fact the rolls were not wrapped up or packaged suggest they were not swallowed for any form of illicit transport, Serrano said.

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Rather, they were ingested in an "act of desperation".