diff --git a/monai/networks/blocks/transformerblock.py b/monai/networks/blocks/transformerblock.py
index 06e38bc8b9..d0d305ad42 100644
--- a/monai/networks/blocks/transformerblock.py
+++ b/monai/networks/blocks/transformerblock.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def __init__(
             qkv_bias (bool, optional): apply bias term for the qkv linear layer. Defaults to False.
             save_attn (bool, optional): to make accessible the attention matrix. Defaults to False.
             window_size (int): Window size for local attention as used in Segment Anything https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02643.
-                If 0, global attention used. Only 2D inputs are supported for local attention (window_size > 0).
+                If 0, global attention used.
                 See https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything/blob/main/segment_anything/modeling/image_encoder.py.
             input_size (Tuple): spatial input dimensions (h, w, and d). Has to be set if local window attention is used.
 
diff --git a/tests/test_transformerblock.py b/tests/test_transformerblock.py
index 193efdd16c..5c49afe96b 100644
--- a/tests/test_transformerblock.py
+++ b/tests/test_transformerblock.py
@@ -57,6 +57,22 @@
     ]
     TEST_CASE_TRANSFORMERBLOCK_LOCAL_WIN.append(test_case)
 
+TEST_CASE_TRANSFORMERBLOCK_LOCAL_WIN_3D = []
+for window_size in [0, 2, 3, 4]:
+    test_case = [
+        {
+            "hidden_size": 360,
+            "num_heads": 4,
+            "mlp_dim": 1024,
+            "dropout_rate": 0,
+            "window_size": window_size,
+            "input_size": (3, 3, 3),
+        },
+        (2, 27, 360),
+        (2, 27, 360),
+    ]
+    TEST_CASE_TRANSFORMERBLOCK_LOCAL_WIN_3D.append(test_case)
+
 
 class TestTransformerBlock(unittest.TestCase):
     @parameterized.expand(TEST_CASE_TRANSFORMERBLOCK)
@@ -119,6 +135,14 @@ def test_local_window(self, input_param, input_shape, expected_shape):
             result = net(torch.randn(input_shape))
             self.assertEqual(result.shape, expected_shape)
 
+    @parameterized.expand(TEST_CASE_TRANSFORMERBLOCK_LOCAL_WIN_3D)
+    @skipUnless(has_einops, "Requires einops")
+    def test_local_window_3d(self, input_param, input_shape, expected_shape):
+        net = TransformerBlock(**input_param)
+        with eval_mode(net):
+            result = net(torch.randn(input_shape))
+            self.assertEqual(result.shape, expected_shape)
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()