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The native ovarian surface mesothelium is of an \u2018uncommitted\u2019 phenotype, and has potential to modulate to epithelial or mesenchymal phenotypes in response to signals such as those associated with ovulation. The exposure of the mesothelial lining of an inclusion cyst to the ovarian stromal microenvironment may be responsible for the phenotypic change to M\u00fcllerian epithelium so commonly seen in these cysts. M\u00fcllerian metaplasia is usually to a serous phenotype, and it is possible that undefined molecular events occurring in an inclusion cyst that has undergone M\u00fcllerian metaplasia may initiate neoplastic change in these cysts. This may be the developmental pathway of most invasive serous carcinomas. Occasional rare cases of ovarian intraepithelial neoplasia, manifested by epithelial atypia in an inclusion cyst or on the surface epithelium without invasive carcinoma, are identified histologically. 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