<;P>;PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tool for myocardial temperature measurement used for cardiac surgery that measures and monitors direct and real-time myocardial temperatures during cardiac surgery. <;P>;SOLUTION: The tool for myocardial temperature measurement comprises a flexible tube, an adsorptive part having an opening and a canopy arranged by communicating with the leading end of the flexible tube, an opening and closing part arranged at the base end of the flexible tube, a connector buried in an airtight way into a position located closer to the leading end of the flexible tube than to the opening and closing part and connected with a temperature measuring device at the base end of the flexible tube, and a lead wire communicating with a myocardial temperature measurement sensor to measure myocardial temperatures. The myocardial temperature measuring sensor is characterized by being provided protruding from an opening-side surface of the canopy of the adsorptive part. <;P>;COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT