Median concentrations of IL-10 and TNF-alpha in peritoneal fluid turned out to be the highest in ovarian cancer patients, followed by women with endometrioma and subjects with benign serous cysts.
Pathological results from human endometrioma tissues showed the increased infiltration of CD123<sup>+</sup> plasmacytoid dendritic cells and higher percentages of cells that express the IL-10 receptor and CD31 as compared with the corresponding normal counterparts.