diagnosis w/ no mouth sores

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I had a long chat with our pediatrician who hasn't diagnosed my daughter with

, but

just a Periodic Fever Syndrome, I guess because my daughter doesn't get mouth

sores. It

seems to me I've read about several kids on this board who have a

diagnosis but w/

out the mouth sores or w/ variations in time between fevers. Can you have a

diagnosis w/out all four symptoms and w/ fever variations?

This raises questions for me about how is diagnosed. Are some docs/parents

opting out of indepth testing (like for neutropenia and genetic disorders) and

diagnosing

based on history, symptoms and general blood tests? I'm getting the sense that

there is a

greater variation in how this condition manifests than the name leads one to

believe.